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

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

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>As for the "design faults" you discovered, common sense says they're
>faults, but common sense is sucky engineering.  To achieve cheap,
>fast, _and_ good you have to go beyond common sense.
>

There's a plastic locating pin that is obviously to guide thing thing 
in.  It's easy to see how it saves time on the assembly line.  The need 
to go beyond common sense - yes, absolutely!  But the design of that 
drive falls short of even base common sense!  It would be nice if they 
were actually quality engineers interested not only in saving time on 
the production line, but also continuing to make a quality product. 
They should have known better than to use that design.  The drive was 
two years old, have you experience failures with newer versions of Seagate?

Lyle