Re: [H] Seagate drive died

Microcenter has OEM bulk drives with ONLY the foil bag anti-static covering them stacked in "bins" where every customer can handle them and bang them around. (Can you tell where I would never buy a drive?) Rick Glazier From: "Winterlight" I think it has

RE: [H] Seagate drive died

Ding ding, we have a winner! That's why I buy my drives in retail packaging now. If I do buy an OEM drive, it is from ZZF, where they actually do a good job of protecting a drive with their custom foam box approach. I'll never, ever buy an OEM drive from Newegg after receiving several with their c

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

The only consistency in the hardware industry is inconsistency. I think it has more to do with how drives are shipped from the vendor. Vendors use to send these out in boxes with big foam inserts, but now you are lucky if they secure it in bubble wrap. I have bought drives that were thrown

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

Ironically perhaps, the main disk in my system is still a circa 2004 firstgen 36gb raptor :) For those of you that deal with a large volume of disks, what seems to be the most reliable right now? I've had good luck with WDs, but with limited experience. Of computers I've built in the past f

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

WD36 is about the highest fail rate drive I know of. About 1 in 4 dies in the first few days for us. :( Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 22:10:50 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

Tons of WD raptors DOA here, but none have failed on me (36, 74 or 150GB) once they spun up. The only consistency in the hardware industry is inconsistency. From: Sam Franc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Seagate drive died Date: Sat, 12

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

I actually think I'm going to speed up my plans to use my older computer as a freebsd fileserver (using the new ZFS filesystem which seems very cool!) In the future, I'll stick with WD--that's what I meant. Scott On May 12, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: OK...so you're get it r

Re: [H] Multi-handset phones 5.8 GHz

ATM using a Radio Shack ET-3880 base and 2 spare ET-3581 remote headsets. Suspect it may be a copy of another Uniden phone. Believe this model has now been superceded by ET-3965(?). Chosen because the previous Uniden DXAI-5188-2 headsets had to be updated (phone numbers) separately. Tedious.

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

OK...so you're get it replaced, get a WD drive, and use the replacement seagate to back up the WD, right? Scott Sipe wrote: ignore it? nope, I'm planning on getting it replaced (my comment below about seagate customer service was me reading stories of people having their disks sit at seagate f

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

ignore it? nope, I'm planning on getting it replaced (my comment below about seagate customer service was me reading stories of people having their disks sit at seagate for multiple weeks before getting replaced--we'll see, I'm hopeful!). Scott On May 12, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Anthony Q. Marti

Re: [H] iPod and the like suggestions/help

if you don't get the skin, you'll get the finish all scratched up. I'd get a skin and replace it every so often. Scratches look bad on the black. Joe User wrote: I got the 80GB Black refurb, Apple care, AV cable, and Kensington FM xmitter / charger. I was going to get a skin but it sounds like

[H] Multi-handset phones 5.8 GHz

I need to identify a multi-handset phone system that has good volume levels on the other end. I currently have an oldish Panasonic 5.8 GHz Digital FH system but I get a lot of complaints from friends about not being able to hear me. I feel this sometimes has an negative impact with ladyfriends.

Re[2]: [H] iPod and the like suggestions/help

Hello Ben, Saturday, May 12, 2007, 12:30:37 PM, you wrote: > The skins just keep the thing from getting all scratched up, which they > do quite easily. I have mine in a nice leather ipod-specific holster by DLO. A holster might be better. The one I was looking at was a silicone skin that fit on

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

don't you have a 5 year warranty on this drive? You're just going to ignore that? Scott Sipe wrote: On May 11, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Greg Sevart wrote: You're kidding, right? One drive is _less_ than meaningless... Greg I totally agree that one drive is not at all statistically or otherwise

Re: [H] iPod and the like suggestions/help

The skins just keep the thing from getting all scratched up, which they do quite easily. I have mine in a nice leather ipod-specific holster by DLO. Joe User wrote: I got the 80GB Black refurb, Apple care, AV cable, and Kensington FM xmitter / charger. I was going to get a skin but it sounds li

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

We sure have varying experiences with HDs. I have had a lot of WDs fail on me too, along with Maxtors. Fate does not seem to be kind. Sam Scott Sipe wrote: Well, my seagate 7200.10 320gb perpendicular drive died after 7-8 months of usage. No warning signs, no temperature issues (surrounded by

Re[2]: [H] iPod and the like suggestions/help

I got the 80GB Black refurb, Apple care, AV cable, and Kensington FM xmitter / charger. I was going to get a skin but it sounds like they are mainly a pain in the ass. Thanks for all the advice. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] Seagate drive died

On May 11, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Greg Sevart wrote: You're kidding, right? One drive is _less_ than meaningless... Greg I totally agree that one drive is not at all statistically or otherwise significant. What I do think is significant is that a lot of other people seem to have this same ty