Re: Recommend a good IDE drive for 24*7 use?

Palindr?me wrote:

I've swapped out 4 dead HDDs from desktop systems over the last
few weeks. All from low-profile boxes, in offices where it has
been "hot enough to boil a monkey's bum", as Bruce would say.

Yes, they were all Maxtors...

After recent discussion of their fail rate I turned away from Maxtor after
many uneventful years, and bought a pair of WD 300GB's about 3m ago. One
of them went into meltdown yesterday, reallocating sectors faster than I
could keep up and vibrating like a washing machine on spin.

That's karma, innit..... :o)


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