Re: [tlug] Seagate Sudden Death....

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

Josh Glover wrote:

>>[LHS] And - other Seagate hard drive users out there - have you had any
>>trouble with your drives?
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>Sure. Hard drives eventually fail, regardless of the manufacturer or
>model. This is just a fact of life, which is why some sort of backup
>regimen (I recommend rdiff-backup[1]) is *extremely* important.
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Yes, but some drives last longer than others!  I have a 200MHz Digital 
computer with a ten-year old drive that is still going strong.  One 
factor may well be the much larger witch of the heads in a 3GB drive in 
comparison to an 80GB drive.  Also, it's important to share this type of 
information I think, because certain manufacturers will sometimes have a 
bad run or a generally bad model.  What does cloud the issue is when 
different manufacturers buy their drives from the same OEM 
manufacturer.  In any case, certainly not all hardware is created 
equal!  I don't think a lightly used hard drive should have a sudden 
catastrophic failure after only two years of (light) use!  If this is 
not uncommon with Seagate drive, then I'll avoid them until evidence 
suggests they are better than whatever else I'm using.

PS - No argument on the importance of backing up data!