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From: kony on 11 May 2010 21:00 On Wed, 05 May 2010 23:28:01 +0200, Massimo <och(a)tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote: >On Tue, 4 May 2010 12:28:39 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> >wrote: > >>On Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 20:01:56h +0800, >>Man-wai Chang (Cantonese Gamer-droid) explained: >> >>> IBM DeathStar was a major problem back in the days of 15G to 40G hard >>> disks. >> >>See the shocking pictures at >> >> <http://www.astro.ufl.EDU/~ken/crash/index.html> >> >This surely is a joke isn't it? > No, the heads can clean one of those glass platters bare... though personally I heard of the Deathstar problem early enough on that I avoided buying any. For me the most problematic was the first generation of Maxtor 7200 RPM drives for desktop use. "Plus 8" might have been their name, I can't recall now.
From: Massimo on 13 May 2010 05:09
On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:00:33 -0400, kony <spam(a)spam.com> wrote: >On Wed, 05 May 2010 23:28:01 +0200, Massimo ><och(a)tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote: > >>On Tue, 4 May 2010 12:28:39 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> >>wrote: >> >>>On Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 20:01:56h +0800, >>>Man-wai Chang (Cantonese Gamer-droid) explained: >>> >>>> IBM DeathStar was a major problem back in the days of 15G to 40G hard >>>> disks. >>> >>>See the shocking pictures at >>> >>> <http://www.astro.ufl.EDU/~ken/crash/index.html> >>> >>This surely is a joke isn't it? >> > > >No, the heads can clean one of those glass platters bare... >though personally I heard of the Deathstar problem early >enough on that I avoided buying any. For me the most >problematic was the first generation of Maxtor 7200 RPM >drives for desktop use. "Plus 8" might have been their >name, I can't recall now. Well, it's amazing but I will have to believe. :-) And yes, I heard about the Maxtors too. That is wy I never bought one of them whilst I did buy IBM/Hitachi stuff later and to my satisfaction. Massimo |