On Tuesday 07 September 2004 21:49, Damon Register wrote:
What year was that? I am curious because of my own experience with WD a few years ago. At the beginning of 1998 my wife and I went to Peru while we left our house in care of a friend. While there, my friend called my wife's family to say that the cat was fine and my computer was dead. [snip] I was a little nervous about buying a WD 120 GB drive last fall but the price was right so I took a chance. So far the pair of WDs are still working in the SuSE raid 1 setup.
I think WD went through a bad patch there. I have seen countless WD drives from roundabout that time until about 2000/2001 fail within very short times and for no apparent reason. Most of them seemed to be some sort of mechanical failure - the head mechanisms got worn out or something similar. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za