[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[James Brigman]

How many drives total are you running, and how were you getting 11 250GB
drives of ANY brand to fail? Did you fire the person who built the
system?

Sounds like heads getting too hot. On the drives, I mean. 

JKB

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:49 -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:35 -0400, James Brigman wrote:
> <testimonial type="customer">
> 
> We had 11 250GB Maxtors (roughly 50/50 mix of SATA/PATA) die in the last
> year -- all within the 1-yr warranty period.  It took many phone calls
> and a bunch of maddening Maxtor mistakes (eg. sent us a box for shipping
> just one drive when we 8 at that point... *sigh*) over a period of ~3
> months but we did eventually get all the replacements.
> 
> </testimonial>
> 
> And always read the fine print!  If you return drives in a non-
> certified shipping container (even though its already dead), your
> warranty is *void* and you don't get a replacement.
> 
> Ed
> 
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