On 1/14/2010 10:04 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Already done. Still feel a bit burned by the whole matter though.
I still feel burned from IBM's 75GXP fiasco ~7 years ago, even joined the lawsuit at the time(and got booted by the judge because I was in another state), had probably an 80% failure rate on those disks. I got a PDF on a CD somewhere that has all kinds of internal IBM docs(from the lawsuit) showing how they knew what the problems were but refused to fix them.
OT but reminded me of that..
Seagate Barracudas - mid-nineties, and again three-four years ago. Mid-nineties, first time as a sysadmin, and in nine months, *five* out of... was it eight? failed, one *twice*. The Sun account rep for who I worked for knew me by name.... I won't *ever* touch a Barracuda willingly.
That's not a particularly useful reaction because every vendor has shipped bad batches and it's a toss of the dice who will be next. Better to avoid short warranties and bad customer service - and never use the same model/batch for your backups as the live systems.