[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[marbux]

On 5/19/07, roger <roger at eskimo.com> wrote:
> >From what I understood for the past 5 years, Maxtor was about the same
> as WD in quality... ie. "You get what you pay for."
>
> I've got approx 5 WD drives around here, 3 have been kicking for the
> past 5 years (10,20,40GB).
>
> Seems the like the 5-6 year old drives were really good, but then, any
> drive purchased recently since 4 years ago, just drop like flies
> (>=120GB).  Think it's a multitude of factors including heat, and cheap
> parts.  To include an engineering defect not being able to take *any*
> abuse.
>

Could be. I haven't had my first >=120GB drive all that long. :-)

Best regards,

Marbux