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Yes, I think heat is doing in most of my drives that are failing. Of course, you might hope that a laptop could take a little heat. ________...

I've certainly had the least luck with WD drives (five fails before three years) in PC uses and swear by scsi as well. I'm pretty h...

On 8/11/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote: > Its almost like clockwork on a server that good drives only last 5 > years. ...

Sometimes a manufacturer will just have a bad batch. Back in the mid-nineties we had a RAID5 array that lost another drive before we got the...

Mark Krenz wrote: > Ok, so what brands are people swearing by these days? > > I've used WD, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and IB...

Ok, so what brands are people swearing by these days? I've used WD, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and IBM over the past 10 years, although ...

Mark Krenz wrote: > The thing is, the drive that failed on me was a Western Digital 4000YS > Raid Edition, it was meant for high dut...