i ran into that same problem at the same time, but i had a special test machine just to burn in drives, and i also had multiple backups too. that was back in the days when an affordable tape backup unit was both fast enough and large enough to easily hold a full backup of a drive on a single tape. i still have several of the boxes they used to send me my replacement drives and one of them is going to hold the drive i am sending in now. the cheapest tape unit that can back up my boot drive on a single tape is just under $1K. each tape is just under $100. i can buy a new hard drive for less than the cost of the tape cartridge. Staples has been selling Maxtor 120G drives for $89 after rebate.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:41 AM Subject: Re: OT: Once is not enough > Back in the old days of 420 megabyte hard drives I had a Western Digital > drive go south on me after 6 months. Western Digital replaced it under > warranty. The replacement died when it was about 6 months old. They sent > another warranty replacement. That one was dead out of the box when I > received it! They sent a replacement for that one and I traded it in on > another drive (Seagate) at a local shop without ever opening the > package. Clearly, Western Digital had a production with that particular > model, or even that one particular production run, but I've never been > able to make myself purchase another Western Digital drive!
