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@Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:07:24 +1000
Subject: Re: ATA Hard Drive - BIG, BAD, & UGLY
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Phil Parker wrote:

>On 07/18/2003 at 11:47 PM, Felix Miata  wrote:
>  
>
>>WD - winmodem of hard drives, and dismal reliability to boot. I don't think
>>I know anyone locally who hasn't had at least one WD fail within a few
>>months of warranty expiration, if not long before.
>>    
>>
>
>Amusing. I don't know anyone locally who has had one fail.
>  
>

Hi Phil,
In years past I had several WD drives - 2 different 203 MB models - one 
still running today - the other died because of a faulty VLB-slot, and 
recently [6 months ago], i had a 2.4GB [OEM-branded IBM] that had SMARt 
- and which after having groaning noises 'for ever" fimally announced 
via SMART that "this drive is no longer operational" or something to 
that effect. bit the only PIO 203Mb that cost me about $552 back in '92 
is still running well in a W3C system, currently drive #4 [secondary 
slave] on that system.  none of the drives ever had bad sectors, which I 
have had with older Seagates.  Current Barracuda ATA100 -7200, as Felix 
said is ultra-quiet - doesn't bother me as each HDD is in their own 
drawer with individual LEDs, so I can see what's working all the time.  
Previous 10GB Seagate ATA-66 was also very quiet and no trouble.  It's 
predecessor a 4.3GB Medalist UDMA2 was/is always a little noisy - but no 
faults.  The 20GB Maxtor ATA100 that superseded the 10GB Seagate is also 
excellent - fast and quiet.  My old pair of 2.1 GB Quantum Fireball 
TM2110A drives just keep running - I'm on one right now in W4FP16.  Also 
have a '89-'90 Quantum LPS270 [258MB] running W3C - still as silent as 
the day I had it new, running MW-DMA2.

Currently awaiting delivery in a few days of 4 SCSI half-height drawers 
with fans in frames which also have individual activity LEDs.  currently 
they are mounted internally in secondary floppy bays and SCSI activity 
not seen, only heard when they [re]spin-up [using dsksleep.flt to keep 
the 10K RPM ones cool].

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Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert
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