On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I find it odd how success with hardware brands varies from person to person.
> Sometimes even from business to business....
>
> Over here, we run Maxtor Diamond Max drives, 7200rpm, 8meg cache, ata 133 in
> just about everything. The model numbers escape me (I'm home now), but they
> run the range from 120gig to 200gig and... they just keep running and running
> and running, ne errors or "slow downs". Yes, they do fail from time to time,
> but so does/did everything else we tried. If your bios is smartdrive capable,
> turn it on and see if it reports problems.
>
> Cheers and good night.
>
> P.S. Here in New Jersey, where I live, we got a wonderful 8" of snow today.
>
You guys are really making me freak out about my Maxtor harddrive.
How exactly does SMART work? I had that working in one of the IBM
thinkpads before, but it only gave me "warning" on boot-time when the
drive failed. Is there anyway to tell if the harddrive is failing in real
time?
Thanks,
W
PS. Here in another part of Jersey, we got a miserable 3 inches. Not
enough to cancel school, but enough to make life miserable.
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