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--Vincent Janelle "MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced"
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998
wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jay Thorne wrote:
>
> > Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
>
> A company I did some consultation for bought a wad of the 3mb WD drives (I
> don't remember the designation... 'caviar' pops into mind but that could be
> wrong). Over the span of 4 or 5 months we lost half of them, one at a time,
> due to what appeared to be heat-related problems. Amongst the symptoms were
> very loud operating noise, constant retraining (that
> *CLICK!*chuggachuggachugga* thing the drive does when first turning on, and
> many drives do as part of internal adjustments for heat or spinrate), slow
> operation and trouble identifying on boot. AFAIK they've all been replaced
> now.
Wow.. 3 MB.. I think he means 3GB.. drives. The Caviar line was really
fucking flaky. Unstable.
> The real bitch was not so much that the drives died (hassle enough, but
> work-aroundable) as the fact that most of the machines had been packed up and
> shipped off to a tier 1 provider in San Jose. Fixing required putting OS
> (linux) on a bunch of replacement drives, sending them south and getting
> someone local to do the swap. Haven't had a problem since (We used a
> combination of Quantum and Fujitsu 4gb drives).
>
> Could be we got a hold of a bad batch (they were purchased in a bundle and
> the serial numbers were relatively close together) but I can pretty much
> guarantee that this client won't be buying WD again for a while.
>
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