Re: hardware doctors!

["David Lloyd-Jones" <icomm5@example.com>]

"Christopher SEKIYA" <wileyc@example.com> writes:
>
> I've never had any problems with IBM drives.  Not the fastest drives on
the
> planet, but I've never had one die on me[1].


Yet.

Every disk dies; the question is when.

There has been tremendous progress in the construction of drives over the
past few years, and it is quite likely that your IBM drives will last to
times inconceivable four or five years ago.

The fact remains: in due course they will fail.

Back them up.

                                         -dlj.