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  Steven Roberts <strobert@ata-sd.com> writes:
> Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >
> > I should think what one learns is to avoid Seagate drives.
>
> agreed... I once had the misforntune of moving data from a maxtor drive
> that sounded like it was going to die to a seagate barracuda. within a
> week the seagate drive blew itself up (mostly idle machine even)...

Hmm. We have a couple of barracudas here, no problems yet.

Our experience (or rather, a customer who has built 50+ machines with these
things) is that they fail when subjected to prolonged vibrations, i.e. (in
their case) fans which wear out their bearings and become eccentric.

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