[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue May 5 03:08:35 UTC 2009


On Monday 04 May 2009 20:50:03 John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> >> I wonder if maybe we're barking up the wrong tree by trying to avoid
> >> specific manufacturers.  It seems to me that the problem is more that
> >> every manufacturer cranks out batches of good drives and batches of
> >> duds.  Seagate is the most recent one to have a batch of duds, so
> >> they're the one everyone's avoiding right now; but at one point it was
> >> IBM, before that it was Maxtor, and before *that* it was Quantum.
> >
> > I have had bad batches from WD twice. IBM once, Seagate twice. Maxtor
> > twice. Also Connor, fujitsu.
>
> I forgot Qunatum. Those 8.4GB bigfoots were absolute crap.

And of course - Who could forget Micropolis?


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