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Re: Trimming away bad sectors...



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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