I Hate Hard Drives

[Mark620]

I have had 3 fail during july. :bang head :cry:

Fijitsu 10 gig This drive may still be under warranty but it was purchased by a large systems builder have no way to RMA it...but I got it free.

WD 15 gig - (2 months out of waranty)

IBM Deskstar 30 gig, yea, yea, yea, I know, it lasted longer than most and I should have expected it - mfg NOV-2000....9 months out of warranty.

[Grimdeath]

Just think how much more room you'll have in your case now with only one drive that's three times the size. Can't go wrong with Seagates 5 yr warranty...

[Mark620]

Just think how much more room you'll have in your case now with only one drive that's three times the size. Can't go wrong with Seagates 5 yr warranty...

None of them were in the same machine...as a matter of fact all of them were the only drive in the machine....

[Vio1]

case of bad luck? Ive had 2 drives go on me (years ago).

[Mr B]

I have had 3 fail during july. :bang head :cry:

Fijitsu 10 gig This drive may still be under warranty but it was purchased by a large systems builder have no way to RMA it...but I got it free.

WD 15 gig - (2 months out of waranty)

IBM Deskstar 30 gig, yea, yea, yea, I know, it lasted longer than most and I should have expected it - mfg NOV-2000....9 months out of warranty.

Silver Lining...bad things happen in threes... ;)

Check Fujitsu's site and try to RMA it directly thru them.

I've RMA'd things before that I got "free". In fact, I just got an MSI board in today...an older 655 Max-FISR. One of the instructors at school had it in her home PC, and it went belly up. The tech guy at school replaced it the day before I started my internship there.. He asked her if she wanted to RMA it, and she had no clue what he meant...he explained, and she said "Hell..it's a $59 board. If you want it you can..."

He looked at me and asked if I wanted it. Dang straight. :D Filled out the RMA form at MSI's site that night, and got approved the next day no questions asked.

I once pulled a WD 200EB drive out of a dumpster behind a local repair shop...sure enough, checked WD's site, and it was under factory warranty. I filled out the online RMA form and for $8 shipping, got a refurb that's still in use today.

It can't hurt to try..... ;)

FWIW...I've had good luck w/ Maxtors. ;)

[apu318]

I'm nervous my maxtor will fail me and I have no back ups because of the shear amount of crap i have.. my friends had over 4 maxtors die on him alone. then again he wrapped one of his western digials in ducttape to stop it fro making so much noise. it still works though..

[Recursion]

Buy wester Digital raptors they have a 5 year warrenty

also a DVD burner is great for backing up things. Such as i backed up farcry and made ISOs of it and they all fit on 1 dvd with a backup of NFSU and halo all on 1 disc

DVDs really come in handy