RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices

["Tiwari, Rajnish" <Rajnish.Tiwari@xxxxxxxxx>]

My unhappiness with seagate's australian distributor's support
isn't a case to brag about (on a few occassion) - so I decided to 
stay away from Seagate altogether. No problems so far with
WD & Maxtor.

Did someone say 1 yr warranty on HD ?? I must have been in
wilderness way too long !!


::>-----Original Message-----
::>From: Tom [mailto:hyperbola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
::>Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 1:59 PM
::>To: Paul L Daniels
::>Cc: marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
::>Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive choices
::>
::>
::>im seeing a lot of physical failures.
::>many broken heads, particularly on the seagate drives i have used.
::>i rang up seagate personally and they denied they had a 
::>problem with the
::>drives and it must have been the circumstances i was using 
::>the drive in.
::>
::>Tom
::>
::>"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and 
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::>you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize 
::>and sterilize
::>you."
::>-F. Scott Fitzgerald-
::>
::>
::>----- Original Message -----
::>From: "Paul L Daniels" <pldaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
::>To: "Tom" <hyperbola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
::>Cc: <marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
::>Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:43 PM
::>Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive choices
::>
::>
::>> We basically seem to all come down to the same thing... 
::>there's a high
::>level of 'unreliability' involved in modern hard drives.  
::>The next logical
::>question is to ask, what is the form of the failures?
::>>
::>> Anyone give some opinions?  Are we seeing an increase in 
::>IDE controller
::>failures ( on HDD ) or physical defect failures (ie, broken 
::>heads, stiff
::>armatures ?
::>>
::>>
::>> Regards.
::>>
::>>
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