Re: Seagate

["B.Iftime" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

heheh 
i have too a Segate 6.4GB on my own computer in Romania..and works verry
good  for 8 month.I dont know what i say..i have  an segate of 3.2Gb 1
year ago & works ...maybe its little slow and make more noisez..but
works ..i use like mobile unit transport(wth rack).
Regards,
Bogdan I   


Harvey Kelly wrote:
> 
> 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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