Re: Western Digital hard drives are garbage

From: Me (no-address_for_spammers_at_no-address.com)
Date: 05/19/05

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    Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 01:04:44 -0400

    On 18 May 2005 18:40:02 -0700, messenjah@mailinator.com wrote:

    >I've had six of them go within the year, total crap. The Caviars are
    >complete junk. Stick with Maxtor or Seagate.

    I've run nothing but WD Special Edition 8meg cache drives since they
    came out. I've had at least 8 of them spinning 24/7 for well over a
    year (probably 2) and have yet to see even one of them so much as
    hiccup. What on earth are you doing to those things?

    Clues:
    1.Don't wad cables up and shove them over the drives. That acts as
    insulation and causes them to overheat which KILLS them.
    2. Most cases have a place for a case fan that blows through the drive
    bays FOR A REASON. Run a case fan blowing over those drives to cool
    them.

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