[mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Wed Dec 15 22:14:13 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 07:53 -0600, Paul.Buchanan at thomson.com wrote:
> I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me.  Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it.  No such luck.  After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt.  A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless.  

I think you just had a lot of bad luck (or stumbled upon a batch that
has all the drives broken).

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Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/



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