[plug] New box :p)

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Oct 25 14:58:41 WST 2002


> You probably don't want to be hearing this.... but it takes me both 
> hands to count how many IBM IDE hard disks I've had die in the last 3 
> months across about 30 computers with them in them.  And not all the 
> same model either.  These all being hard disks no older than 12 months old.

My housemates both have one 40g deskstar each. One died 2 months ago, 
the other one is showing signs of going.

Don't buy IBM drives.

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Craig Ringer
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