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Old March 19th, 2004, 04:29 PM
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Bartender, make mine a double...
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man is 233 mhz slow with seiv....
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Why do so many HD's fail so often? It is because we all play so much SEIV?
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I have never had a HD failure. Sometimes, buying the cheapest you can find is a bad, bad idea.
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well for me it is because of renovations near the computer room
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Of about 100 hard disks I bought/sold I had 2 failures (after about 4 years of service) - both in the early days of HDs, both cheap ones - plus one 6 month old Maxtor Last year.
I also always advise to let them run rather than switching off the computer if it is for just a few hours or less. Energy saving settings for HDs are deadly. Usually HDs running 24/7 are the most reliable.
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Hell my 1.0 gig HD cost me $200.00 bucks back in the day and we all marvled at its storage capacity and now, it is still working and has paid for itself 10 fold.

My Last HD to fail was the one that came with this HP predessor and it was an 80 gig hard drive.

I can get a 200 gig HD for $120.00 bucks now. Less then a $1.00 a gig now. Compare that to the $200.00 a gig I paid for my 1.0 gig HD five years ago.

I think that is an astronomical decrease in price.
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