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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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The culprit... by OneFix · 2002-03-25 09:10 · Score: 1, Redundant

Not all new drives experience this problem...specifically mentioned in the article is the Hydrodynamic Bearings, like are used in my newer Quantum Fireball AS Plus 60.

So, the real culprit is the old Metalic Bearings that are still used in some of these drives...

So, what's the big fuss about? Well, it would be like an automobile manufacturer making a car without airbags today (only without that whole life or death thing)... :)