[SunRescue] Re: Hard drive manufacturers

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 apotter at icsa.net wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, they're OK, just far from perfect.  I've had particularly 
> bad luck with an older lot of 350 meggers.  Four of four failed.  Warranty 
> seems to be universally 1 year, while others go as long as 5.

Out of curiousity, were these the 3.5" HH model 0661 drives?

If so I'm hardly surprised.  IBM and WD were in bed for a long time, this
was one of their early collaborations.  They still share much in the way
of drive controller electronics.

The 0661 had a rather spectacular failure mode best described as sounding
like a ball bearing being dropped on a glass coffee table, in front of a
PA microphone.

-James