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Yes, Wombat. I am afraid you have right.
My 60 GXP is partitioned in 2x20 Gigs. They are not the system drives. The first partition is a backup, containing mostly Ghost backups and the second partition is a Video drive. Fortunately I could copy the Ghost files to another drive before I run the DTF.
My system HD is a WD Caviar 15.3 GB on my Epox 8K7A+ mobo. It never failed, but my dealer warns that the Epox motherboards don’t like the WD hard disks. My set-up proofs that it is not true. Who knows?
I plan to buy a new HD, something near 80 GB, but I am uncertain which one.
IBM has high frequency of failures, poor bearings etc.
Maxtor has a good reputation and the HDs are very silent disks. I don’t know how safe they are?
WD works fine for me, they must be safe HDD, and fast, but I’m afraid for the dealers warning.
On the other side, I am thinking about how this failure came.
I captured video with AVI_IO. When I finished the capture, quickly tried to shut down AVI_IO, before it finished to write to HD and before it finished its own work with the Marvel G400. I suspect that it wasn’t directly the hard disks own failure.
In the next future I will hard test my IBM, before the decision for the new HD.
Fred H
My 60 GXP is partitioned in 2x20 Gigs. They are not the system drives. The first partition is a backup, containing mostly Ghost backups and the second partition is a Video drive. Fortunately I could copy the Ghost files to another drive before I run the DTF.
My system HD is a WD Caviar 15.3 GB on my Epox 8K7A+ mobo. It never failed, but my dealer warns that the Epox motherboards don’t like the WD hard disks. My set-up proofs that it is not true. Who knows?
I plan to buy a new HD, something near 80 GB, but I am uncertain which one.
IBM has high frequency of failures, poor bearings etc.
Maxtor has a good reputation and the HDs are very silent disks. I don’t know how safe they are?
WD works fine for me, they must be safe HDD, and fast, but I’m afraid for the dealers warning.
On the other side, I am thinking about how this failure came.
I captured video with AVI_IO. When I finished the capture, quickly tried to shut down AVI_IO, before it finished to write to HD and before it finished its own work with the Marvel G400. I suspect that it wasn’t directly the hard disks own failure.
In the next future I will hard test my IBM, before the decision for the new HD.
Fred H
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