Re: another dead HD, which do you use?



martin griffith <martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

RAID, and warrantied drives.
That, or ebay the aging ones before the year is up.

>
> 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...
.



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