World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 2000

In a message dated 12/06/2000 4:14:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com writes:

...
  As for the ST225, don't forget that they *love* to
cook their logic 
  boards... there's one spot that gets hot and then the logic board rolls  over

...
   and dies... 
I've also seen dozens of them which heat up after about 30 minutes.  The 
platters expand due to the heat, and, if you're lucky, you just get a bunch 
of bad reads.

If you're unlucky enough to be doing writes while the thing is hot, when it 
cools off most everything on the disk will be garbage.

I'm sure others must have seen this behavior from the 225 . . .

Glen
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