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Re: Western Digital HD problems?

Jay Thorne
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:15:34 -0700

Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> The reason I'm posting is to find out if my experiences are typical.
> I have 3 WD hard drives and now two of them have had to be replaced
> over the last two years. Does Western Digital really suck? Or is
> it all IDE hard drives?
>
I've had 2 WD drives in our webserver for the last 3 years. No probs
w AC21000 and AC21600. Slackware 2.2, -> tons of incrementals
ending on V 2.0.34, libc5.4.xx something.

We have 10 or so boxes and have never lost a HD running linux in 3
years.
We used to run SCO on one box, and we lost an old Quantum SCSI drive
about a
year ago. We replaced the drive and (wisely) upgraded to Linux. We
were frustrated with a 5 user license on SCO.

Running '95 & NT.... different story.

> *Please* don't flame me over the IDE/SCSI issue ;^) My *next* PC *will*
> be all SCSI, don't worry. I've had enough of this drive dying crap!
>
> Clemmitt Sigler
> Va. Tech Physics Dept.

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Jay Thorne  



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