[SLE] 250+GB drives reliability

jfweber_at_bellsouth.net
Date: 11/16/04

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    ** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one
    or two false starts **

    I'm kinda getting the feeling you guys aren't really too chuffed about
    the way these drives last. I wonder if that is why they are so , um...
    inexpensive at lest when compared to the price of the largest available
    scsi drives. SO I wonder about getting a USB or Firewire one for
    backups perhaps or to carry a clone from box to box... ( ot maybe to
    plug into a business room's computer in order to keep my files from
    getting spilled out onto an Xp drive. ( I'm half convinced that is how
    my email password at Bellsouth was picked up. Not completely but it
    almost makes more sense that some curious person would bother to
    download my email off the server. It would have been smarter , were
    they looking for CC numbers or the like to leave it there so I didn't
    find out someone was reading my email.

    Can you say encryption??? Well no, apparently, most windows clients
    should do it but to get someone to encrypt or accept encrypted email is
    like pulling teath.

    Still, is the general consensus that these huge drives aren't really
    reliable for longer than say 1.6 years? and by two full years of
    service one could expect a failure? 

    -- 
j
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