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Comment Re:What about reliability? (Score 1) 449

by karzgrrl on Monday January 17, 2005 @03:59AM (#11383585) Attached to: Not Much Happening in Hard Drives This Year

With one notable exception, my drives are into their 5th year of service and one is approaching 7. The exception was a Hitachi 120 GB that failed twice within 6 months. I suspect a bad lot of drives. (After much bitching, Hitachi replaced the 120 with a newer design 250 and it seems to be okay.) Mostly, my boxes are home built with server grade enclosures... hefty power supplies and lots of cooling. The Hitachi was in a B&W Mac.(?) k

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