@amigamad
My 40 gig ibm hard drive has a problem that only lasted just over a year.
It does seem that most of the complaints have centered around this particular drive. I have to admit my IBM drives don't include this one, but all of them are still working fine, some of them after years of use.
he drives i have now all maxtors
Maxtors have been least reliable drives I've had overall, as well as generally being the poorest in terms of performance. I've now stopped buying them altogether.
I think new drives are made as cheap as possible and reliabilty can be a joke why else would a manfacturer reduce warrantys from 3 to 1 year ? lots of people have dead hard drives and with a 120 gig drive thats full even useing dvd r drives to backup is going to be long and slow
It's a fair point. Manufacturers - all of them - are cutting costs so drives in general are becoming less reliable. Then again, they do hold much more data than they did previously and operate at higher speeds and therefore temperatures. That's the price of progress.
Backing up is a problem, and always has been when the storage available was greater than that offered by the backup medium. It's no more practical to back up hard drives to DVD now than it was to back up hard drives to floppy in the days of the A1200.
With prices being much lower than before, it makes sense to mirror drives rather than back them up in the traditional manner. The chances of TWO drives failing at the same time are much less than those of ONE drive failing. I only use CDRs for permanent storage, never for backups.
As for the point of the original article, I dunno. What he says is fair enough, but it's stating the obvious, so why bother?
