Western Digital external drives

[Mike Holstein]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 08:59 -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> > There are some viruses/trojans out there that make it seem that your
> > HARDWARE is progressively failing: notifcation that drive is failing,
> > etc.
>
> FreeBSD and Linux only here. XP in VBox. I never have seen this.
>
> > so far, knock wood
>
> Done.
>
> When I read Mike's "All drives fail" I first wanted to reply, "no, I've
> got Samsung that never will fail", but since punishment follows swiftly,
> it seemed to risky to write this even as a joke.
>
> I bet if I would have written this claim, storing the sent mail would
> have lead to a click click noise from a drive.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
>
> We should be very careful with claims about drives. Experiences are
> interesting, but drives that are old and still living can't be compared
> to nowadays drives. IIRC the drive in my Lacom Atari thingy is a Seagate
> SCSI, 42MB. It's now around 20 years old and still ok. I turned it off
> and on several times a day for perhaps more than 10 years. No drive from
> the last 10 years would survive such a usage for more than 3 years.
>
> Perhaps this drive will never die, but what could we use a 42MB drive
> for nowadays?
>

feel free and trust whatever you like to whatever degree you want. i'll
keep my data backed up and plan for hard drive failure.. cheers!


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