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Are Newer And Faster IDE Drives Troublesome?

Posted by timothy on from the what's-the-real-spin dept.

viperjsw writes: "Earthweb is running an interesting article on how there seems to be a failing trend in newer 7,200 RPM IDE hard drives. I am the lead hardware engineer for my co with four thousand 7,200 RPM ATA100 Maxtor and IBM hard drives. I have not seen any failure trends, though failure rates are at about 5-10%. Are Earthweb's reports verifiable?"

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  1. I'm probably a shitbrained assclown by Profane+Motherfucker · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But it seems that 5-10% is quite high. From what I recall from my fucking worthless stats class a few years back when .com wasn't tantamount to saying "I had a fucking posh job and got fired,", the 5% figure was statistically important. It seems that if a business has a mfg process, a failure rate of such a high percentage would be a sure fire way to seriously gang bang the bottom line. Is 5-10% fucking true?