On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote: > IBM deskstars are known for hardware failure and used to be nicknamed > deathstars because of it.
The so-called 'DeathStar' drives were pretty well limited to the 40-60 GB drive series. IBM later sold their hard drive business to Hitachi, who still sell them under the 'DeskStar' name. The 'click of death' is a very common hard drive failure mode across all models of hard drive. Every drive manufacturer has had some model lines that had QC and/or design issues; no drive manufacturer is uniformly bad. You cannot make the blanket statement that 'Oh all those <insert manufacturer name here> drives are horrible.' Google's studies of drive failure are the best data we have, <http://tinyurl.com/2bfcgfp>, the rest of the stuff I can find is exemplified by things like this <http://tinyurl.com/36x6vqo> which is quite possibly the stupidest experimental design for a "statistical survey" I've ever seen. I didn't know Iomega made hard drives... IBM's (and later Hitachi's) DeskStar and TravelStar series were (and are) decent drives, but hard drives fail, period...they're mechanical devices heir to all the wear and woes of mechanical devices, and one that's been kicking along since 2002 has had a long and useful life, for a consumer drive. We have drives on servers that have been around since then, and are still working, but those are also on systems that we're afraid to shut down, because they probably won't come back up, and they were $500 enterprise SCSI-3 drives. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
