3 Major HD Makers Recalling Drives? [UPDATED]

mauriceh writes "Seems that 3 major Hard Disk companies have a problem with defective 40GB platters. A major recall is in the works." Seagate, Hitachi, and Maxtor 40 & 80 gig drives appear to be the troubled drives. Update: 05/30 12:37 GMT by M : There is apparently no recall. Digitimes has issued a revision/retraction, and TheInquirer has a story as well.

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[jonfromspace]

Or maybe they were using said HD.

DEAR GOD

[randomdef]

WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE PORN? all those hours i spent....er...downloading...

Re:hey

[subzero_ice]

When you call IBM they send your HDD over to Hitachi. So I think Hitachi is basically recalling the deathstars.

Maxtor drives

[Psykechan]

I've got a 40GB Maxtor in this system but I haven't had any probl

From China?

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously, those drives are suffering from SARS.

Hard copies of everything

[L. VeGas]

That's why I print out copies of everything once my drive is over half full. For video, I print each frame individually. For music, I print out the lyrics and sheet music for each song. I haven't quite figured out what to do about games though. Every time I play one, I have a whole different batch of screenshots to print.

Oh well, I'm sure the inkjet manufacturers will figure something out.

Re:Topical?

[Em Emalb]

I sincerely question the Slashdot-newsworthiness of this.

Hi, I am a member of the slashdot welcome team. You must be new here.

Welcome!

In other news..

[CptChipJew]

it turns out these problems with the drives were occuring because the S.M.A.R.T. technology turned out to be S.T.U.P.I.D.

Re:Slashdoted?

[IanBevan]

Among the top four hard drive vendors worldwide, Western Digital is the only one unaffected by the incident, as the company does not have products manufactured in China, sources said.

OMG SARS has crossed species into hard disks ? Now that's a clever virus..

RIAA Cheers Defective Drives, SCO to Follow

[Nom du Keyboard]

Today the RIAA cheered the discovery of defective hard drives. "Defective hard drives will not be used to store pirated songs and movies from illegal P2P networks," their spokesman said, adding, "We're calling on our paid-for friends in Congress to mandate defective hard drives for all users."

While SCO has yet to be heard from, rumors are that they will drop all suits against users who certify that they only use defective drives in their Linux systems.