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Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers?

Posted by Cliff on from the check-your-hardware dept.

Michael_Angel asks: "If your hard drive has started to show garbled characters in the BIOS at boot, or just does not pick up. You may be victim to what could be the biggest hard drive manufacturer failure rate yet! Our company is small OEM system builder and we have been hit by a failure rate of %90 of the hard drives we purchased a year ago. We might be lucky because we stopped buying after rumors of hard drive issues 3 months after Fujitsu Limited made some major changes. IBM had a pretty crazy rate of failure and was telling people to turn off smart mode. I've called Fujitsu and they said that there is no problem! However, a simple search for bad fujitsu hard drives on any search engine will point to some angry folks. One notable link is this Register story." Has this problem followed Fujitsu drives into other countries, or might they be limited to the UK markets? Have you noticed an unusual failure rate in Fujitsu drives compared to hard drives from other manufacturers?

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  1. Re:Didn't I read this a month ago? by DuBois · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "I only got as far as the 3 Arrs in pirate school..."

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  2. Re:Help!! by UrGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You would blame a whole country, a whole culture because of one stupid company?

    BIGOT!!

    But at least you are not a lameo first poster.

  3. Re:This is only a UK problem by Gluteus+Minimus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    3) ??? 4) Profit!! Sorry... I just had to do it one time to get it out of my system. It was this or a Beowulf cluster of bad British teeth. I'm done now. Thank you.

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