Subj : Re: Grrrrr...
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Mercyful Fate
Date : Sun Apr 17 2005 01:48 pm

  Re: Re: Grrrrr...
  By: Poindexter Fortran to Belly on Thu Apr 14 2005 20:11:00

 >  Be> They used to suck hard back in the 90s... I think they have improved,
 >  Be> though, just judging by seat-of-the-pants statistics based on warranty
 >  Be> issues with PCs that I have sold. We stopped selling Maxtor about a
 >  Be> year ago, when we noticed a slight trend (didn't I say this already?)
 > 
 > 
 > Oddly, I've *always* run my BBS on Western Digital drives. Had a 340 fail
 > after 7 years (!) of fulltime use. Never a failure since. (knocks wood)
 > 

I've only had one oem die on me in the last 5-6 years or more.. there is one
thing that most people over look now a days and that is these frickin hard rive
run 10x hotter then they useta... if you don't have a hd cooler or something
blow air on it, it will burn out before you know it...


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