Re: Seagate

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:

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

This must be a Seagate habit; six months ago my 1.2 GB hard drive died.  I
managed to get my data off it, by employing it as a slave when I bought another
hard drive (a Fujitsu, don't worry), but it still remains unbootable.  A
Seagate boycott anyone? 

Harvey

>  
> 
> 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?
> 
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