Re: [tlug] HDD Reliability

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

>(So does Maxtor, though I haven't personally seen any evidence of defects in
>their design, only in their documentation and support.
>
My own experience with Maxtor has come in the form of original equipment 
supplier to most of the old Dell computers I've bought.  I haven't had 
any of them fail on me, but they have been so noisy (a constant and 
rather loud "eeeeeeeeee" white noise) that I found it physically tiring 
to have them on.  When I put a Seagate 80GB drive in one of them, it was 
like magic!  Suddenly that noise was gone!

Agggghhhhh!  No sooner had I typed the above, than my 120GB IBM/Hitachi 
drive made that weird sporadic noise it makes.... a kind of high pitched 
groan - which sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it's a higher 
pitch than you would associate with a typical "groan" and not so high to 
only call high pitched.  It's weird - and scary.  I guess I should try 
to record it (the actual sound I mean).