Re: [tlug] HDD Reliability

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:35:35 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

>     >> Which drives are supposed to be good?
> 
>     Tod> I've also had really good luck with Seagate drives.  The
>     Tod> latest offerings use fluid bearings and are dead quiet too.
> 
> My experience with Seagate drives is that they fail on the purchase
> anniversary + 1 day or so. 

I also had 2 out of 3 seagate drives that failed within 2 months.

> My feeling is that it's not the company, it's the model (and of course
> the luck!)  I'm just before losing a 4-year-old IBM drive
I'd say it's luck that counts. I still have an IBM drive from that
notorious deskstar series that's going strong after 4+ years.

Anybody worrying about reliabiliy shoud buy more disks and go with RAID
and forget about warranty.