> On 1/14/2010 10:04 AM, m.roth at 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 <snip> >>> 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. Ah, no. Back in the eighties and early nineties, I thought highly of Seagates. Then, in the mid-nineties, *every* *single* ISP in Chicago had dumped the then-new Seagate Barracudas... and not a year after that, I got stuck with them in the external drives for my Sun, and the problem - note that I said one of them was replaced *twice* - clearly lasted for at least a couple of years. Then, about 4 years ago (plus or minus a year), I was hearing the same thing. It appears to me that Seagate, esp. with the Barracuda line, has a tendency to rush them out the door with clearly inadequate quality control. They've done it twice, ten years apart, so I take that as an institutional failing. mark "probably too many MBA's"