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Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers?
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?
Never use a product that you cannot pronouce the maker's name without help. It should tell you something...
Bloody Libertarians. Get the hell off our message board.
well, dont blame fujistu --
its you're fault for recommending the drives, looser!!!!
reality timed out @ 11:11
wow... you rock pal!!!
Sad cases of compulsive behaviour, such as Eric who has dragged his unsuspecting sister, Dorothy into the despicable cult.
The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.
Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.
And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot
- Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
- Exhibit B
- Exhibit C
- Exhibit D
- Exhibit E
- Exhibit F
Much like the French, they have their own version of cinema, including a thriving, depraved pr0n industry.They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.
Shut the fuck up you lying sack of shit. You've probably bought one hard drive since that 1 gig drive that came with your IBM Aptiva that your parents bought you, you fucking shit-packing queer. You haven't been hooked, you're just a terrorist that loves to support those slant-eyed war criminals. You were astonished? Jesus Christ, settle down. You didn't think that a company could go to shit? When was the last time you bought a Gookitsu drive? ANSWER THE QUESTION FAGGOT!!! In the time since that purchase, could the quality brand name you've come to love have gone to horseshit? Probably, right asshat? I fucking hate stupid shits like you. Yes, you know how to get your case opened up, congrats. Yes, you've installed Redhat, congrats. That doesn't make you some sort of expert in the IT field. You're not managing a company that's responsible for maintaining thousands of systems. You are a nobody and you have nothing to say on the subject since your use of Gookitsu hard drives is in such a limited number. In the future, don't post here because you are a fucking assclown that will never get laid. Oh, by the way - your mom has a dick.
its spelled super not subpar, dummy!
reality timed out @ 11:11
+4 insightful? How about +1 No-fucking-duh! Cripes, did you come up with that one on your own or did your MCSE mailing list provide it for you?
From my experience, I've never had a hard drive that I've bought and cared for myself ever die on me for no reason. Probably about 10 hard disks from all different vendors. I have however destroyed my hard disks accidentily.
On the other hand, I've used disks second-hand, or been given disks (or stolen disks) that have died on me. But I can't vouch for their care.
Maybe you guys are just really rough with your disk drives?
One thing I have noticed about Windows users is that they're very quick to blame their problems on hardware when it's really Windows' fault that their devices don't work or their filesystems have been corrupted etc.
Anecdote: I know someone whose NIC just stopped working on their Windows 2000 box. Couldn't get it to work at all, reboots, reinstalled driver, etc. He booted Linux and it picked up the card and configured it with no sweat. How many people in situations like this that don't have Linux end up tossing their hardware because they think it's dead?