On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:04 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Chong Yu Meng wrote: > > > Let's all wait for the other shoe to drop. > > After three hours on the different powersupply one of the drives (with > no SATA connection) has spontaneously started clunking every few seconds > and has twice spun down and up again. When I picked it up to read the > label it stopped clunking briefly then resumed. > > Samsung SP2504C 250GB > Samsung ???? Auuugh!! There are four drive manufacturers I try to stay away from: IBM/Hitachi, Maxtor, Fujitsu and Samsung. I guess that just leaves Seagate and Western Digital. Incidentally, those are the 2 oldest drives that I still have that still work. A 80MB Western Digital (remember when 80MB was huge ?) and a 18GB Seagate SCSI in a external casing. Of course, my experience is completely subjective and a lot depends on your luck. From my previous experience as tech support for a hardware reseller (RMA) many years ago, I learned that there are batches occasionally that slip through Quality Control either because of a new undetected fault or a change in their Quality testing. If you happen to be one of the "victims", it can be especially frustrating because other users may testify to the reliability of the brand, when you are tearing your hair out wondering if you are crazy. Also, there are the hard disks that "fall off the back of the truck" -- hijacked shipments that may or may not contain good drives. It's probably a smaller problem in the West, but it used to be a big problem in Asia. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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