Re: Trimming away bad sectors...

[Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

Actually, Maxtor (possibly others) does offer "enterprise" drives.  They come off the same line, but are tested to higher tolerances, are rated for 24x7 operation (instead of 14x5) and have a far better warranty.  Of course, 
You'll pay for them with a significant premium.

In reality, most ATA drives today are no where near as reliable as just a few years ago.  Consumers want price, performance, not reliability.  Hence why I don't build even the smallest Windows PC these days without a 3Ware Escalade 7006 or 8006 and 2 drives. 
I don't mind Linux systems so much as it's cake to recreate the system  verbatim with a NFS/SFS mounted homedir, but it's a real pain to load a Windows system because of specific file and registry settings (even with roaming profiles, etc...).

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-----Original Message-----
From:  Steven Pritchard 
Date:  04-11-26 2:40
To:  silug-discuss@silug.org
Subj:  Re: Trimming away bad sectors...

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:03:06PM -0600, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I've got this drive with a similar problem. It's a WD 120GB less than
> a year old, so I have no idea why it's getting hard read errors being
> of recent vintage.

Because WD makes just about the worst drives on the market right now?

Do yourself a favor and buy a nice cheap Samsung or (perhaps better
yet) Seagate and toss the WD in the trash.

BTW, there's a really good reason why IBM^H^H^HHitachi, WD, and Maxtor
all went down to a 1 year warranty on their desktop drives.  Samsung
has a 3 year warranty on everything, and Seagate recently went to 5
years.

Steve
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