MassiveProng wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:13:21 -0500, "Anthony Fremont"
Gave us:

As for bad drives, I see them all the time. I just replaced one in
a $3000 laptop that was well under a year old. Guess what, it was a
deskstar.
And another thing, S.M.A.R.T is worthless at predicting drive
failure.


Jeez, 2.5" laptop drives are even harder to kill! What the **** are
your friends doing over there, ****ing on everything?

Maybe the drive makers sell you guys the **** end of the test lots!

Or maybe that guy's Porn is making the drive laugh at him.

You are jinxed, because I have NEVER seen so many dead drives as you
seem to claim are in abundance in your little circle.

I maintain scores of pcs, drive failures are common in "my little circle".
I'm not just talking "dead" drives, but ones that develop bad sectors
visible to the OS. Look at your system logs in xp for any "disk" errors.
They'll show up there and xp won't say a thing about it other than that.
It'll just keep on retrying the same dead sectors, it's pitiful.

And oh... we DO use them... we thrash the hell out of them.

Maybe you are in the airstream of a very salty body of water...
Could be any number of things.

Humidity is real high here, maybe that has something to do with it. It's
almost always the same thing, bad sectors appear and then multiply.
Sometimes it's the power on clunk thing with WDs.

Anyway, WD, Fuj, Maxturd... I never buy. Seagate has much higher
MTBF numbers, are quieter, and are used in military circles, which is
really what says the most about them.
I would also buy IBM (now Hitachi) or Hitachi drives.

IBM was the leader in MR recording technology, and WD and the other
use IBM's technology in their drives. They still have the record for
areal density on horizontal recording tech, and now also have it on
the perpendicular stuff.

Many moons ago, when I was a full time programmer, we had this IBM PS2
thingy that had a raid array and ran MVS on an XCP card. It ran constantly
for like two years. The site power was scheduled to be off for an extended
time and we shut the machine down for the weekend. On Monday, 3 of 6 drives
refused to go back online..... so much for Raid-5 (real raid-5 too, not that
BS software crap). They were IBM SCSI drives all mounted on their sides.
This was about 12 years ago.