whabang wrote:
All the Fujitsu drive failures of months back were eventually traced to a bad packaging used by Cirrus Logic, to whom they'd outsourced some chips.
By the gods, I remember that! :-o
I was working in a technical support department at the time, I must have replaced thousainds of those!!! :-D
Ouch. It bit me in a way, too - the companies whose engineering I'm most likely to trust are IBM and Fujitsu. (And Seagate, I suppose, but I was never 100% happy with the 2.1gb Barracudas that I 'overpaid' for right before 4-20gb drives went dirt cheap.) Well, we know what happened to IBM, and then *bam* - Fujitsu, who were still making drives in the 'trustworthy' 20gb-40gb range (while everyone else seemed to be having growing pains pushing the envelope to 60gb+), had that hit. In the drive capacities that I was actually hoping to scrounge off eBay...
Ended up getting a WD 80gb retail, because, y'know, can't trust them, but, *CLICK,* nobody was *CLICK* complaining at the time, and *CLICKCLICK,* the price was right. I can't say *CLICKTHUNK* I was *CLICKCLICKwhirrr* really happy with that *THUNK* decision *THUNK,* though. *THUNK.*
I do think some of that was down to the power supply or drive positioning in the box that ended up in, never did get a chance to transplant it and see.
But anyhow, you can imagine *why* Fujitsu shot the food so badly on their recall; by the time they realized what was up - and perhaps that their stock of replacements had the same faulty chips? - they'd already pissed everyone off for not addressing the issue. Sucks as much for them and their reputation as it does for the consumer.
