Viktor Pilpenok wrote in a message to Ken Parnell:

 VP> Hello Ken!

 VP> 01 May 04 18:55, you wrote to me:

 KP> "Viktor Pilpenok"  wrote
in message

 VP>                                        ^^^
 VP> Cewl, i've got a whole new fidonet zone just for myself ;)

Nah,  I've noticed other folks being lost in the 0-zone on other occasions
over the years...    :-)

 KP> Seagate are known as rock steady. Like military tanks. They aren't
 KP> fast but they lasted forever. (20+years)

 VP> I don't know how about 20 years old seagates, but those that are
 VP> sold here today are total crap. Actually most stores simply stopped
 VP> selling them, because of really high failure rate while the drive
 VP> is still in his guarabtee period. 

I got given a "dead" one a while back that still had some
warranty left on it, and so I sent it off to them to deal with it.  They
send me a "refurbished" unit that carried as much warranty as the
original unit had left,  only.  I still have that drive in my linux box and
it's still going strong,  holding both /home and /var on two separate
partitions.  And that's been the case for oh,  five years now?  Something
like that...

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