On Oct 10, 2005, at 5:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wanna say in my experience ATA drives are NOT reliable. What
percentage
of drives have you noticed fail in a year? Because all but one of
my IDE
drives have failed. So thats 4 gone bad, 1 is still working.
2-3 per year in over 300 systems, none in our own systems in the
office. Drive failure is rare, but we really push people to get UPSes
and we don't buy used drives (well, I do, sometimes. That drive's
been going pretty much 24/7 for two years now, not a hiccup.)
If you're killing three drives in less than a year you're either
getting them from the wrong source (someone selling substandard
drives) or are doing something else to 'em, because, frankly, drives
a lot more robust than that.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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