CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

WC>> Love to but currently on the 486 as the hard drive in the
WC>> Pentium died. Win 3.1 - DOS 5.0 

CA>> In my 20+ years I've only had one hard drive quit on me.
CA>> Odd that so many here on FIDO are forced to replace hard
CA>> drives. :-\ 

RJT> I've only lost one as well, though the two ST251 drives I
RJT> used to use got *real* noisy before I retired them.
RJT> Bearing noise, I guess, from running them 24/7. 

CA> My one-and-only hard drive failure was also that the bearings just
CA> wore out after almost 15 years of 24/7 operation. I
CA> couldn't find a reason to gripe considering the circumstances
CA> (Seagate purchased new by me). :-) 

The 251s I refer to were used,  and still work!  I just can't deal with the
noise of them...

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