On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:22:50 GMT, "James Sweet" wrote:

I haven't seen a drive suffer from stiction in probably 10 years, things
have changed since then, platters and heads are much different now.

One of my clients got 3 systems in 1999 with Samsung SV0432A drives in them.
ALL three of those drives (made in 1999) failed in 2001-2002 due to stiction
problems. And on each drive I managed to spin them up by hand and recover the
data to a new drive. I'm still using one of them as a paperweight on my desk!

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