HDDs (was Re: PowerUser external SCSI HD)

Geoff Reed wrote: I don't know if that's true, but I know they had a particularly nasty reliability rating. I remember reading somewhere about a store that sold the Kalok drives. After numerous returns, they discontinued them. A customer walks in and buys their last one. The store insists on soak-testing it for a few weeks. It survives. Two days later the customer comes back, drive in hand. Said drive was dead. I can vouch for the nasty reliability - I know of a school that had a few Acorn Archimedes machines with Kalok hard drives fitted (Octagon series IIRC, Acorn ST506 controller). They all died after six months. And I thought Toshiba's 2.5" drives were bad... Later. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ PGP Key ID: 0x0E18C95F PGP Key Fingerprint: 2741 5CB7 1D45 6F77 D1FC FA3D 7A87 2DA4 0E18 C95F