On 13.3.2012 19:46, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Markus Falb wrote:
What about if a firmware bug destroys all data on day XXX on all harddisks ? Well, extra paranoid maybe and of course I have not thought of all possible things that *could* happen.
Are you saying that you only buy one model from one maker? In the mid-nineties, every ISP in Chicago dumped *all* of their SCSI Seagate Barracudas for failures.
Well, take it one step further. What if the bad bug were not in the firmware but in software (kernel?)