On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:13, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Danthevb6man@aol.com (Danthevb6man@aol.com) [030707 11:00]: > > In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, shri@urbyte.com > > writes: > > > > > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for > > > their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it might have > > > been co-incidence that the harddrive burnt out same time you installed > > > linux but I am not a hardware expert. > > > > I just bought a new hard drive, and I almost bought an IBM. I'm really > > glad I saw this message first, I ended up buying a Seagate. Does > > anybody else have any recommendations--or warnings--on which > > brands of hard drives are good or bad? > > Take note of Jamin's comments. Whatever anecdotes you read here should > not be considered data. > > That said, good choice on the Seagate =) > > I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a > particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar). A particular > model, I said, not a particular unit. I've heard many horror stories > about the 60GB deskstars, while also hearing that IBM's other lines > (including deskstars in other capacities) were great. Again, this is > all hearsay. > > For desktop systems, I wholeheartedly recommend seagate's drives > (particularly the ST340016A) because they're so damned quiet. Inside a > closed case, they're literally silent. I also haven't had any problems > with seagate drives either at home or at work. Again, this is not data. > > good times, > Vineet > -- > http://www.doorstop.net/ I'd also interject that any manufacturer can hit on a design or manufacturing process that, while it works great on paper, might not stand up once in the field. There was a stretch where Seagate were to be avoided (inordinate failures on any models over a certain stretch - probably a manufacturing problem) and the IBM click of death reportedly is most prone to a handful of models (design problems likely.) ISTR a stretch where IBM drives were solid and greatly reliable, leading to them being the preferred drive of numerous major system vendors. I strongly recommend learning about the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) that you can track down on drives. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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