Drives. Was - Re: [plug] New box :p)

[Trent Lloyd]

> Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> >
> >How warm were these IBM drives running?
> >It seems than in a typical PC case, with standard cooling these things
> >could fry bacon!
> >With some airflow modifications in the case, I have been able to pull 
> >nearly
> >20 degrees of the drive temp.
> > 
> >
> Well one of ones that died, did so whilst I was watching, it was during 
> boot up from cold in an air conditioned room.
> 
> One of them died in a machine that had quite a bit of extra cooling and 
> sits in the very cold radio studio server room at work.
> 
> >I would rather have purchased Quantum drives as I have had a failure rate 
> >of
> >zero in the last 7 years, but now they are Maxtor (Who I would not even 
> >spit on).
> >I figured IBM were the next best thing.
> >Plus, IBM still lists warranty at 3 years, where the others have dropped to 
> >1.
> >
> > 
> >
> I'm not going to bother claiming warranty on my own 45Gb drive that 
> died.  I mean why bother?  It'll just get replaced with another IBM 
> that'll no doubt die an early death.
Didn't someone say IBM replaced a notebooks drive with a Hitachi?

> 
> 
> / Ben
>