Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: fsync on large files | Date | 17 Feb 1999 23:22:29 +0100 |
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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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