[mythtv-users] OT: Seagate to reduce warranties on consumer drives to 3 years from 2009
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Thu Dec 18 07:35:24 UTC 2008
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:38:46 -0500
> From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> And, now, the clicking Hitachi has resulted in another 1.5TB HDD
> purchase and rolling a 330 GB HDD down for the main desktop--but it's
> not yet in there (as I was trying to determine if the failures are due
> to something in the system).
Vibration?
Maybe a bad fan is vibrating something badly, or the machine is
getting externally jostled from a big subwoofer or heavy trucking
traffic or a rambuctious kid and an insufficiently-damped floor.
(I'm thinking maybe power, maybe heat, maybe vibration as the three
things likely to kill a disk. And contamination with certain gases
that are quite unlikely to be found in a household and would have lead
to the quick death of -every- drive in the house, not just some of 'em...)
P.S. I'm assuming your setup never has anything touching or resting
on the top (all-metal) surface of the drive; apparently that's quite
a fragile place to exert downward force according to the vendors...
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