From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 27 16:23: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D41637B442 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a145.otenet.gr [212.205.215.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0S0MoK29031; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:22:50 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0S0MnL46136; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:22:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:22:48 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs Message-ID: <20020128002248.GA46069@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020127201512.A263@tisys.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020127201512.A263@tisys.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-01-27 20:15:12, Nils Holland wrote: > Hi folks, > > well, does anyone have some experience with Western Digital's current > drives, specifically the 80 GB WD800BB? Mine just quitted service for good > with interesting clicks and then a whole lot of unrepairable errors in WD's > diagnostic software. The WD's are a strange breed of drives. I've had disks fail in the first few weeks of them being bought, replacement disks fail too. Yet there are cases like the two 45 Gb atapi disks I now use on my workstation at home that work great for more than 1.5 year now, without EVER showing any problem at all. Go figure :-/ -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message