Re: another dead HD, which do you use?
- From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:59:18 +0100
martin griffith wrote:
> 2 HD's dead this month, googleling for "Hard Drive Reliabilty" gives
> zillions of pages of adverts saying how reliable Our HD's are. Even
> tomshardware didnt go into it in detail
>
> What do you use?
>
> BTW I notice that my latest drive must not be exposed to more than
> 350G's of shock. I'd accept 100G's if they lasted longer...
My experience of the former Quantum drives as system disks was exemplary.
I don't recall one of their SCSI drives ever giving problems and I only
once had a problem with one IDE drive of their manufacture - long, long
after purchase btw - and it was recoverable enough to make a perfect
backup.
No other brand of drive ever came close. Note that IBM, Apple and I think
maybe HP and Compaq have all used Quantum drives.
They got bought by Maxtor. I hear mixed opinions about them now.
I thought I was buying quality with IBM deskstars for a Raid mirror.
Although they aren't from the series that have the 'click of death'
syndrome - one drive irregularly seems to fail to unlock its heads ( as
it seems ) and I get a broken mirror message. Restarting the PC always
fixes it. I don't like using a questionable drive - but I don't think I'm
going to get it replaced under these circumstances. There is of course
always the mirror itself to fall back on luckily !
Graham
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