Meat Plow wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:35:29 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:12:19 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Never seen this before.

A HDD of mine (IBM Deskstar 20GB IC35L020AVER07-0) 'died' when I restarted
Windows (XP btw FWIW). Windows shut down OK seemingly but wouldn't restart.

They aren't called "Deathstars" just to be cute.
Fujitsu was another deathstar. I've ordered Dell Poweredge servers with
hot swap RAID 5 in the past that were delivered with brand new bad Fujitsu
drives. I finally had to insist another brand when specking out new
servers.

Like other brands, they made some good drives, and some bad ones. If
they were all bad, they would have been out of the business in a hurry.
You can't name a HD brand that someone won't complain that they are all
crap. When i was building custom PCs I let people pick out whatever
they wanted. The price of each item covered the wholesale cost, labor to
install it, and profit. Amazingly, 99% of the time they would chose
whatever brand was the cheapest in the storage range they wanted.

I've never had a Fujitsu hard drive fail on me, and I've only seen a
few bad ones. I still have several good Fujitsu drives from computers I
retired, after years of nearly 4/7 operation.

Of course Fujitsu wasn't as widely used as some other brands.

Maybe it was just their SCSI line but I wouldn't buy another if they were
the last drive on earth.


I`ve swapped out plenty of failed Fujitsu and Maxtor drives, and not
only in PC`s. I try to only buy Quantum and Seagate drives these days
but I`m sure everyone has their own tales to tell.

RonUK