My supplier sees more HDs than you've had hot dinners.
Still I will agree with you about heat. That also contributes to the
high failure rate in PCs.
Good argument for keeping substantial storage externally in FireWire
cases. For a start you can lock them up away from the main computer/s.
Peter
On 25 Oct 2005, at 3:08 AM, Dan Stewart wrote:
Be warned. Western Digital Drives are substantially more prone to
failure than Seagate and Maxtor.
Nonsense.
My regular supplier and I got chatting about return rates on
drives and WD is 20-30 greater than the others.
Anecdotes are not statistically valid facts. I'll see your
anecdote and raise you 3. I've had Seagates fail. I've had
Maxtors fail. I've had WDs fail. I've had IBMs fail.
All are prone to failures. A better place to look for the cause
of HD failure is not enough fans cooling them. I've got 3 fans
in my main box - 1 blowing right over the drives. All are WD
drives. No problems here in several years.
OTOH, I've had a Maxtor and a WD die recently in my B&W G4. It
gets very hot in there, and there is no place to put an additional
fan.
Dan
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