[plug] New box :p)

[Colin Muller]

> > 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.

Seems to be advice even IBM heeds at the moment. The IBM drive in my
wife's ThinkPad died after less than a year. They replaced it, no
arguments at all ... with a same-size Hitachi drive :-)

Colin