Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

Philip Pemberton wrote: The only drives that have failed on my like clockwork have been the Plus Hardcard drives. The EEPROMS give up the ghost after about 10 years, no idea why. I have three and they're all non-functional (they need working BIOSes to work, unfortunately, can't use them in "dumb" mode). I pulled a dead Quantum out of a 386SX last week, about 80MB I think. Horrible grinding noise; I believe the head was tracing a nice groove into a platter :-) Western Digital drives don't fail on me as much as they "pause for no good reason". I have WD 600ABs in my RAID and for no reason they'll just decide to lock up for 1-8 seconds on a write (never a read). I've checked SMART and it's not errors -- thermal recalibration maybe? -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/