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About my HDD failure. | by Skelwar | 2008-05-05 05:34:56 |
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It's not airflow. It's an SATA drive | by perlcat45 | 2008-05-05 07:30:19 |
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Riiiiight.... | by Freakazoid | 2008-05-05 07:54:17 |
| I just call it like I see it. |
by perlcat45 |
2008-05-05 08:15:18 |
and see it like I get called on it. When people don't call me, I assume things are working. When I get 4 different drives that quit, when I used to rarely get calls, I'd say that something changed for the worse. I do not feel that mfr's are honest -- just because it's cheaper to make or sell doesn't mean it's better for me to use. The presence of salesman's 'spiffs' for pushing sata tells me the technology is carp without having to load one. (the salesman getting a boat because they sold a bunch does not translate into "this works good in real life" -- it just raises my suspicions and makes my conspiracy theory generator work overtime.) I add that into my experience with them, and it's just not impressive.
IDE does have its problems. However, I've never seen two of the same model fail with the exact same problem (track 0 disappearing) and then the rma replacement on one failing with the same issue. I figure that if I try something twice and it fails in the same way, do something different. Dropped in a IDE drive. It's been up for a full year since then. Maybe it's just WD SATA drives. I don't know. I'm not going to volunteer for the pain just so I can say I was fair. I'm not in the fair business.
...and yes, when I worked at gw2k, maxtor did have a lot of problems. They had a rude name for that brand. I just have "not in systems I build or get calls on". |
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