Meat Plow wrote:

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:35:26 -0800, PhattyMo wrote:


WT wrote:

I am looking for an 80 Gb Hitachi Deskstar hard drive, Model
HDS728080PLA380. My brother's machine quit with the Hitachi "click of
death" and I am trying to find a working hard drive like his to swap
parts and try to recover their data. Anyone have one sitting around?
I think his machine is an HP.

WT


Oy,There's a reason those drives got the nickname "deathstar".
I had one,until I tossed it out. :-(


I've got two 40 gig DeathStars on a Promise ATA RAID 1 controller
inside a P3-800 box that I used to use for a work PC. It ran
continuously for 2 years before being replaced by a Dell. Although I
haven't fired it up in a year I have no doubt that it will work. I was
under the assumption that the DeathStar laptop drive earned the
reputation rather than the desktop drives, maybe I'm wrong.

I don't think the problems were (are?) limited to laptop drives.

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