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> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes
> From: "Quentin Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, May 23, 2007 6:49 am
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group"
>
> On 5/22/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Mr O wrote:
The first Raptor I bought lasted almost 5 minutes! My current
one has been going for a few months. I only bought it to move my
games mount point to. I don't trust my day to day data to any WD
no matter what the warranty.
I've got about 12 74GB Raptors that have been going 24x7 for ar
On 5/22/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The first Raptor I bought lasted almost 5 minutes! My current
one has been going for a few months. I only bought it to move my
games mount point to. I don't trust my day to day data to any WD
no matter what the warranty.
And to counter-point that, o
The first Raptor I bought lasted almost 5 minutes! My current
one has been going for a few months. I only bought it to move my
games mount point to. I don't trust my day to day data to any WD
no matter what the warranty.
The BIGGEST thing you can do to prevent drive failure is BACKUP.
Seriously,
On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The second drive was a WD Scorpio 60G, I don't remember what the first
one was.
I don't know whether he or his kids misused it, that's certainly a
possibility.
FWIW, I've had a lot of failures with the consumer grade WD drives in recent
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes
> From: "Quentin Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, May 21, 2007 3:19 pm
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group"
>
> If it doesn't work in a known go
I recently bought a new Seagate Vertical Recording technology 80g drive
to replace my daughter's laptop drive. It is very very fast, and has a 5
year warranty from Seagate. I suspect that it will last a while. The old
drive, which my son grabbed (hence my need for another) was a Hitachi
and had
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 18:39 -0700, Mr O wrote:
> First of all, nearly everyone used IBM drives at one point. When
> you could produce the volume needed at a price you couldn't
> argue with why not buy? My pile of dead or nearly dead laptop
> drives is 80% IBM/Hitachi. 19% Fujitsu & Toshiba. Maybe a
On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's a shame that can be said at all about hard-drives these days. When I
left HMT they were actually cranking out decent product (monstly ZIP
blanks). It makes me think most of the hardware manufacturers have
eliminated their test and QC
with implements to
increase production capacity. Numbers, its all numbersuntil "YOUR"
hard-drive dies.
-E
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Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes
On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PRO
First of all, nearly everyone used IBM drives at one point. When
you could produce the volume needed at a price you couldn't
argue with why not buy? My pile of dead or nearly dead laptop
drives is 80% IBM/Hitachi. 19% Fujitsu & Toshiba. Maybe a couple
Seagate and not more than one or two WD or Sams
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 10:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Opinions sought:
>
> I have a friend with a Dell laptop that's old enough to be out of
> warranty, but not too old to be useful.
> The 20G hard drive in it failed, so I replaced it for him with a 60G
> drive a few months ago.
> Now t
Quentin Hartman wrote:
If it doesn't work in a known good USB enclosure, it's almost
definitely two bad drives. Id' definitely RMA it if it's under
warranty. The question then becomes, why did they fail? Maybe you just
got unlucky, that's certainly not unheard of. Maybe your friend
mistreats h
On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Opinions sought:
I have a friend with a Dell laptop that's old enough to be out of
warranty, but not too old to be useful.
The 20G hard drive in it failed, so I replaced it for him with a 60G
drive a few months ago.
Now that has failed
Opinions sought:
I have a friend with a Dell laptop that's old enough to be out of
warranty, but not too old to be useful.
The 20G hard drive in it failed, so I replaced it for him with a 60G
drive a few months ago.
Now that has failed as well, and even if I mount it in a USB enclosure,
it still
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