Bezzen wrote:
Am I the only one who never had any problems with hard drives? (except the occasional trying to get all gigs available when partioning and formatting). I've never actually had any drive fail for me, and I have had a few different ones during the years.
I guess writing this message though, has made my current hard disk doomed. :nervous:
THe only HD I've ever had just flat out DIE on me (that wasn't broken from the factory) was a Maxtor 170mb IDE drive that I had for YEARS and kept my pathetic Cyrix Pr166 (think 133mhz Pentium, yet without any sort of FPU) based system running with. It had permanent bad sectors on it that always seemed to hose the Windows registry. So when someone gave me a 100mb HD, I double-spaced it and installed Windows '95 there - no problemo!
Anyway, this Maxtor was so badly broken that the last time I attempted to use it (I was trying to build my own firewall/router system and wanted a minimal HD in it for logging purposes), when I tried a low-level format through the systems BIOS, it hit the bad blocks and caused the computer to reboot. So I tried a format through DOS - same thing.
I yanked that sucker out and threw it in the dumpster, happy that I had my brand new HUGE 2.1gb HD!
EDIT: Also, with the exception of the infamous IBM Deathstar drives, I've not seen one drive fail more often than the other. Again, I've gotten drives that were bad from the factory, but not otherwise...
