Buckit Now the hard drive has died.

[The PIT]

Just after getting the Abit KT7a upgrade working the bast!"£ hard drive failed. Thats the 2nd one thats failed on in the last two months.

[Jorden]

Maxtor again?

[Greebe]

Quantum there Jord.

Go with IBM's

[The PIT]

Nah it's IBM the first one to ever to konk on me.

[Greebe]

OMG!

[SteveC]

We've hardly EVER seen a fujitsu drive go down at my local computer shop - we use them all the time in virtually all the machines we build.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[cbman]

LOL Steve...

That is because they are slow enough to not put undue stress on anything.

Just kidding.. my main drive is a Quantum Fireball Plus KA but my secondary (Backup/FTP/Movie/Storage/Everything) Drive is a Fujitsu and I have never had any problems with it...



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Hang Low and Limber

[Technoid]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by The PIT:
Nah it's IBM the first one to ever to konk on me.</font>

Wich model,size,age, etc etc??

[MK]

I`ve never seen an IBM dying ...

MK



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Celeron II 860 MHz + Golden Orb
256 MB PC133 Crucial 7E (CAS2)
G400 16MB @ PD 5.52 + TGL
20 GB IBM on HPT U-ATA100 RAID
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400

[SteveC]

Oh I have - 3 of them within a couple of months of each other in one server at work! They were over 3 years old, admittedly, but even RAID5 has problems when it's only got 3 drives and they all start playing up at once!!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Johnny Ray]

Interesting about the Fujitsu drives. At work we have 9 older workstations - 6 with Fujitsu, 3 with IBM. Aside from the harddrives, they are identical. Five of the six Fujitsu drives have failed, while the 3 IBMs are still in use. I've only had two drives fail on me at home - a Fujitsu, and an WD SCSI (hah hah..what was I thinking?). Guess we just got a bad run of drives.

John

[isochar]

At one of my university's computer labs, *every* Western Digital drive failed with 2 months of each other. (About 20 computers purchased at the same time)

[Reverend Maynard]

Am I the only one that has had good luck with WD? Whenever I build a new machine for myself or a friend I always use IBM, but my home server and 3 older machines are all using WD's with nay a problem to be seen.

[The PIT]

Downloaded one of IBMs disk utilities and let this loose on the hardrive. It found a couple of bad clusters fixed them and said everything was okay but you still can't format it.

[Jammrock]

I've got a WD and an IBM inside my computer. But these days WD's are remarked IBM's with slight timing changes so they're a bit faster. I don' buy anything but WD and IBM hard drives.

I worked at a small shop once and we had an entire shipment of Fujitsu's that were DOA. Will never buy Fujitsu again.

Quantum/Seagate/Maxtor...I know too many people that have had too many problems with these cheap @$$ drives. Don't like them either.

Jammrock

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Athlon 650
256 MB PC133 CAS3 from Crucial
87 GB storage from WD & IBM
Matrox G400 (it's not dead yet!)
SB Live! the original full retail, still going strong
Klipsch ProMedia v.2-400, the PC speakers that goes BOOM!
Hope Matrox releases the G800 before rebuild time, becuase the end is near!