22 Dec
2005
22 Dec
'05
11:24 a.m.
On Thursday 22 December 2005 04:29 am, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Notice how most of the people whining "XYZ drives are crap" are the
cheapskates that went and bought the ?30 "white box" OEM drives... Cheap
is generally synonymous with "crap" in the world of hard drives, IME.
People who complain about one specific brand are usually those folks that have
had *one* instance of that brand fail on them, which wasn't backed up...
On a lighter note, anyone ever had a Conner drive?
I've got a CFS425 that I
pulled out of a 1996-model Acorn RiscPC600. It's nearly ten years old and
it's still fully functional. Now *that's* engineering.
I've got a few kicking around here. I've had one of them fail on me, was
during a thunderstorm that did all sorts of interesting things here. As it
turned out, the machine that it was in somehow was not plugged into a surge
suppressor, by contrast with the other four that were running here 24/7. It
was a 386 box that was my firewall/router, and the drive in question was an
80M (!) drive. I've since replaced that machine with a 486dx2/66 and a
somewhat larger drive, the software in question being a minimal install of
Slackware that I ripped all sorts of stuff out of and configured. Still
going... :-)
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