[plug] [OT] Quantum Fireball 6.2gig stability question

[Kirk Turner]

I have a 50/50 success ratio.... well sort of. I have two Quantum 
fireballs at home (10G and 30G) and I haven't really had any problems 
with them, but I've also had two die at work - both of which were oracle 
database servers.

The 'sort of' from above is actually because we have other machines at 
work with QFs that havent kick the bucket (yet) - but they are on lower 
use machines.

Since then we only use IBM hdds at work.

Kirk

Chris Caston wrote:

>I'm using one of these on my Debian system and have recently heard from
>some people that these have a tendency to to break after a few years. I
>bought this in 1999 and I've never had a problem but I'm wondering if I
>should start using another drive.
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>I backup my home directory at least once a week to cdr but I'd still
>appreciate being able to avoid any downtime / data loss.
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>regards,
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>Chris Caston
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