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Are Newer And Faster IDE Drives Troublesome?

Posted by timothy on Monday March 25, 2002 @08:35AM 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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I want last year's model by hamjudo · 2002-03-25 11:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

I want last year's model, but not just any year old model. I want a model that has had a low failure rate.
Where would I find reliability ratings for disks?
Actually, for me, two year old models should be fine. 40 Gbytes is way more than I need for most of my systems. But, I want a new drive, not one that's been sitting on a shelf for 18 months. An old drive probably has some new failure modes, hardening of the lubricants or something.