Buckit Now the hard drive has died.

[Jorden]

TP, did you try the format that IBM gave you, or the Winxx one? If all's well, IBM has a utility to format the drive as well, after it checked it for errors and repaired them.

Jammrock, you spelled because wrong in your sig

Jord.

[Six Of One]

I'm with SteveC. Fujitsu drives are a marvel. Slow, loud but sturdy! I have an old SCSI II Fujitsu 512MB (not using it anymore though) which could be used to hammer nails into the wall and still run flawlessly. Great drive. It survived two other drives: 1 IBM Ultrastar and 1 of this defunct drive company that only built SCSI drives. Micropolis? What was the name again?

Now i am using a Maxtor/IDE for some time (a year?) now and it's just fine. Just refrain from tossing this case around.

Regards

[xortam]

Micropolis made SCSI RAID systems. They were quite expensive. Apparently there was an active market in selling the stand-alone units (stackable package) after their demise as I got a one in my last job when I requested a SCSI drive. The company was a lot of flash and overpriced for what they were offering.

[Liquid Snake]

Hmm. I have never had any HD fail on me, except one. It was a 730MB WD drive that I dropped multiple times. My P133's 1.6GB WD is still working (from 1995). As is my P166's 1.6GB WD drive (from 1997). My main machine has a Quantum Fireball Plus KA. Hasn't given me any problems so far. Almost 2 years old. I've had little experience with IBM drives.

[Technoid]

The only drive that i had that has ever "failed" was an old Conner 640 MB drive that died the day before i was going to replace it.
I wacked it against the kitchen sink a couple of times and afraid of more pain it worked one last time and gave up all of it's data.

[cbman]

Hey LS... I got a Quantum Plus KA too... how do you find the performance of yours?


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[Jon P. Inghram]

Only harddrive I've had permenatly fail was an old Seagate 200 meg 2.5" laptop drive that was in my old Amiga 1200... and it wasn't even the drives fault. The HD mounting bracket was in a terrible spot inside the case, too close to the IDE port on the mobo. What happened was that the short little IDE cable had to be bent in such a way that it levered against the IDE port on the HD, eventualy causing an intermintent connection. After a failed attempt at resoldering it, we opened up the drive to see "what made it tick".

On our current PC, the 10 gig 7200 RPM UDMA/66 Maxtor drive we're using did do that horrible "Maxtor death click" thing a long time ago, but whatever was causing the problems seems to have fixed itself. Also the HORRIBLY SLOW 5400 RPM UDMA/33 WD 4 gig drive we use for a backup is running fine too. The WD's been in it for 'bout 3.5 years, the Maxtor for maybe 3-2.5.

HD Tach says:

WD
random access time, 17ms
burst, 27.1 megabytes/sec
max,min,avg read speed kilobytes/sec
9249,4547,7144
cpu utilization, 1.5%

Maxtor
random access time, 13.4ms
burst 56.5 megabytes/sec
max,min,avg read speed kilobytes/sec
22434,11994,18168.5
CPU, 4.2%

[The PIT]

Well the harddisk is alive and well in another machine. I took it to work and it formatted striaght away.

[Liquid Snake]

Hmm, I never really took the time to bench my Quantum drive. All I remember was that the avg transfer rate was around 17MB/sec.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Just got a new 40 gig WD Caviar last night.




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[cbman]

Here is the bench of HDTach for the Plus KA 18 GB in my main system. (using Intels New ATA Driver)




not bad I guess... I wish I had raid though



Charles


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