26 Nov
2002
26 Nov
'02
8:57 a.m.
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
Normally IBM drives are pretty good. The issue was
about some particular
model that was rated for xxxx hours of constant usage or something like that.
Check slashdot archives for discussion on it. If it's a SMART drive, you have
the program that can query the drive, it might be able to tell you if
anything bad is happening.
I've still got IBM SCSI drives from 8-10 years ago still going strong with
that soft tick-tick-tick recalibrate noise happening every once in a while.
The 400 meg ones are so quiet you can't tell when they doing R/W operations.
There's a *big* difference between IBM IDE and SCSI drives.
Peace... Sridhar