Alvin Oga wrote:
> - i see you haven't been hit with a power surge that took out
> everything connected to the power supply ...
Thankfully, no. I've also heard that if a voltage regulator chip goes out in
the power supply, then the results can be the same.
It would be nice if my other box with
Bruno Buys wrote:
> To me, simply there is no clear pattern on what brand is good or bad.
I agree with you on that. Ironically, the only two hard drives that have
failed on me were Maxtors: a 340MB (yes, megabyte) and a 120GB. The former
failed with the usual seek errors and whatever before a d
hi ya david
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, David Christensen wrote:
> In any case, I back up compulsively -- important data in four places: current
> image, nightly tarballs on another drive in the same box, tarballs rsync'd to
> another box nightly, and tarballs burned to DVD monthly.
very good .. you're
Bruno Buys wrote:
> To me, simply there is no clear pattern on what brand is good or bad.
Agreed. Eventually, they all die. Predicting when "eventually" will arrive is
an exercise left to the reader. ;-)
I'm now using the best hard drive mobile docks I could afford (vibration
isolation, all-m
k l u r t wrote:
> I didn't buy a larger capacity drive because I don't have a need for
> a lot of storage on my desktop and the price was right
A larger drive is going to have more heads/surfaces, so I believe the transfer
rates are going to be higher (especially if the drive is only partially fi
hi ya bruno
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Bruno Buys wrote:
> To me, simply there is no clear pattern on what brand is good or bad. My
> _insert_ drive manufacture here_ is seagate.
bingo .. i don't think there is a single good or bad manufacturer or drive
model
i claim, it depends on where you bought
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF.
My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good.
My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months old and failing.
Tha
Gnu-Raiz wrote:
On 19:14, Thu 03 Nov 05, Stephen Patterson wrote:
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If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
I've had an IBM deskstar runni
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi,
If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF.
My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good.
My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months
On 19:14, Thu 03 Nov 05, Stephen Patterson wrote:
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> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
>
> I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
I've been using the Western Digital WD800JB (EIDE) in various machines for the
past ~2 years and like it:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=32&Language=en
I've just started
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On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the last 2 years.
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Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/
Hi,
If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it?
Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF.
My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good.
My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months old and failing.
Thanks!
H
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