Hands up who has seen the infamous hda: interrupt lost kernel error
message? You've just hard-reset your PC, because it seemed to be frozen,
Hey! I always wondered about that one... time for me to now add that to the list of
items to look out for.
Thanks for that.
Perhaps it's time to up
Brian Martin wrote:
Is there any consensus on brands/models of hard drives to avoid ? or that
are recommended ?
e.g. known lemons or known dependable models, or are they all much the same
in quality dependability ?
Sorry if not strictly linux centred, but a search of the SLUG archives
Title: RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices
Modern Fujitsu drives tend to have a very strong reputation.
I've even hauled a couple from Africa to Europe and then back
here into Oz without any problems.
As for warranties... most companies are now settling for a 1
year warranty
The unofficial figure on those was a 30% failure rate.
(theregister.co.uk has details on this from about a month ago)
Guess that goes to prove the comments previously that all manufacturers tend to have
'lemons' produced now and then.
Quantums are not good - been replacing lots of them
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The unofficial figure on those was a 30% failure rate.
(theregister.co.uk has details on this from about a month ago)
Guess
We basically seem to all come down to the same thing... there's a high level of
'unreliability' involved in modern hard drives. The next logical question is to ask,
what is the form of the failures?
Anyone give some opinions? Are we seeing an increase in IDE controller failures ( on
HDD ) or
1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive choices
We basically seem to all come down to the same thing... there's a high
level of 'unreliability' involved in modern hard drives. The next logical
question is to ask, what is the form of the failures?
Anyone give some opinions? Are we seeing
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:41:25PM +1100, Tom wrote:
i have had an absolute shocker with seagate drives.
i like their scsi drives but as far as IDE goes, NO WAY.
as was said in a previous post - IDE reliability is basically a thing of the
past.
I had heard that ide drives were pretty much the
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:41:25PM +1100, Tom wrote:
i have had an absolute shocker with seagate drives.
i like their scsi drives but as far as IDE goes, NO WAY.
as was said in a previous post - IDE
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:59, Tom wrote:
im seeing a lot of physical failures.
many broken heads, particularly on the seagate drives i have used.
i rang up seagate personally and they denied they had a problem with the
drives and it must have been the circumstances i was using the drive in.
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: Tom
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: well ive got a couple scsi's at home
: they get switche on and off quite a bit
, civilize and sterilize
you.
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From: Brett Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I think it's exactly the other way around. High
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::im seeing a lot of physical failures.
::many broken heads, particularly
Brian Martin wrote:
Certain IBM drives 60gxp, 75gxp? had a bad reputation.
not sure how deserved it was.
APC had a hard drive review recently, certain Western Digital
drives came out both quietest and fastest.
I've been very happy with my Maxtor 40 and 80Gb drives.
Regards,
Matt
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On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, mlh wrote:
I've been very happy with my Maxtor 40 and 80Gb drives.
I'd look at the warranty conditions -- for instance, the Quantum Maxtor
warranties weren't nearly as the Seagates when I last looked...
Mikal
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On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Michael Still wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, mlh wrote:
I've been very happy with my Maxtor 40 and 80Gb drives.
I'd look at the warranty conditions -- for instance, the Quantum Maxtor
warranties weren't nearly as the Seagates when I last looked...
I never bother with the
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 08:14, mlh wrote:
Brian Martin wrote:
Certain IBM drives 60gxp, 75gxp? had a bad reputation.
not sure how deserved it was.
Worst drives I've ever used (IMHO). I've had 5 fail in production boxen
in the last 6 months. Very nasty problems, you hear the click of death
Brian Martin wrote:
Is there any consensus on brands/models of hard drives to avoid ? or that
are recommended ?
It depends.
Over time, all companies have managed to produce lemons.
I was buying on the basis of warranty (if I had a choice), but most are
cutting back to 1 yr again.
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Modern Fujitsu drives tend to have a very strong reputation. I've even hauled a
couple from Africa to Europe and then back here into Oz without any problems.
As for warranties... most companies are now settling for a 1 year warranty, with a
couple leaving their 3 year warranties intact for
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:57, Paul L Daniels wrote:
Modern Fujitsu drives tend to have a very strong reputation. I've even hauled a
couple from Africa to Europe and then back here into Oz without any problems.
As for warranties... most companies are now settling for a 1 year warranty, with a
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