Re: Seagate

["Andrew Basterfield" <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk>
To: Sheffield Linux User's Group <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Seagate

> I've had several Seagate drives and every one of them broke.  You are
> not alone :-)

>From Seagate's website:

MTBF - 300,000 hours continous - that's 34 years and 90 days not including
leap years.
Contact stop/start cycles - 40,000 - that's 27 years 145 days not including
leap years at  [at]  4 power cycles/day.
Service life is quoted as 5 years.

Either I am _exceedingly_ unlucky or Seagate's reliability figures are a
little misleading.

The disks are still in warranty according to the online doofus on the
website so I can return them directly to Seagate for exchange - only snag is
I need 2 genuine Seagate cartons to ship them in or the warranty is void. I
don't suppose anybody in Sheffield has a few kicking around before I start
rummaging through the bins of  the local computer shops?

thanks

--
If you can't do it well - learn to enjoy doing it badly

Andrew Basterfield
MEng Electronic & Communication Engineering Undergraduate
The University of Sheffield, England
Tel. 0114 222 9999 ex. 53198



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