>>>>> "Paul" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB Paul> drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured Paul> heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan Paul> cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of Paul> use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin Paul> to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the Paul> drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up Paul> to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind Paul> of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had Paul> it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't Paul> be going back into a myth box. In the past I have had lots of problems with hard disks on my 24x7 Linux server. Hard disks (from all major brands) were dieing between 3 months and 13 months (one month after warranty). I ended up paying more for 4 hard disks (WD) with 3 year warranty. The hard disks in my Linux server are still working perfectly - I am a bit suspicious of the hard disks in my mythtv system (once I tried to boot up and one hard disk didn't come online - I took the computer apart, pulled the IDE connector out, and put everything back together and it suddenly started working again... However, I sometimes get bad looking hard disk error messages on boot up when I look...) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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