Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 10:11 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ke, 2008-05-14 kello 02:11 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan kirjoitti:
> > Could a list of vendors who make crappy hard drives (ie ones with this
> > issue) be made so we all can avoid them?  I can say my Western Digitals
> > don't have the issue, though they do have a tendency to die anyway (bad
> > sectors and dead circuitry, no clicking or oddly high disk i/o).
> 
> Don't all vendors occasionally make bad hardware? I know that I've had
> bad disks from IBM/Hitachi, Seagate, WD, and Maxtor, at least. (Not all
> of them laptop disks, though.)

I've had 2 Western Digital bricks since Nov and 2 Western Digital
bad-enough-to-corrupt-things-and-crash-the-system drives since January.
One of the bricks was a year old, the other 6 months old.  One
misbehaving drive is 1.5 years old.  The other was misbehaving from day
1.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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