Crappy HDDs Killing Computers

[John Wendel]

Roger wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 12:38 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> alan wrote:
>>> I used to heat my apartment with a 4.2gig Seagate SCSI drive.
> 
> To be honest i really think that Seagate is much much better than
> Maxtor, i think Maxtor is crap, maybe because i have had some really
> rotten luck with Maxtor, from bad sectors to total failure while Seagate
> has been the most reliable for me.
>>> No, I am not kidding.  It ran that hot.  (And it was a small apartment.)
>>>
>> This was a 5-1/4" full height drive, right? I used to use one in an
>> external case as a foot warmer. (I think I still have it in storage.)
>>
>> Mikkel
>> -- 
>>
>>   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
>> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
>>
> 


Just a little note, Seagate now owns Maxtor.

John