> In the past year I've purchased two 200GB Western Digital drives and > a 250GB Western Digital drive, all 7200RPM IDE. If I'm looking at > problems down the road I'd like to be forewarned. What observations > have led you to the conclusion that modern drives are less reliable > than five year old drives.
i build and maintain a lot of PCs for my clients, and i'm speaking from experience. my observation over the past several years is that recent hard drives (80gb and up) are -far- more likely to fail than hard drives from a few years ago, both after a short term of service and all too often right out of the box. i have a pair of 250gb disks in my workstation, and another in $WIFE's PC. they haven't failed yet, but you can be sure i rsync them every night. jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
