[lug] Data integrity problems on new machine

[Gary Hodges]

My very limited experience tells me IBM drives are much quiter too.  I have two 18
GB drives in my PC.  One is a Seagate and the other is IBM.  I had to put the OS
on the IBM drive to keep my sanity.  That Seagate Barracuda is really loud.  Do
HD's have to make any sound when they are reading data, or do the companies build
that sound into the drives?

Gary

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:46:25PM -0600, Archer Sully wrote:
> >Come to think of it, the bad drive I had last summer was
> >also an IBM.  I think I'm going to avoid IBM drives from
> >now on.
>
> That's interesting.  Over the last couple of years I've gotten probably
> on the order of 50 IBM hard drives, and have had problems with two of
> them.  One of them had a bad bearing out of the box.  It actually
> worked fine, but sounded bad.  The other one was an IDE drive in efm's
> machine that was giving errors.  I haven't run badblocks on it to verify
> that yet though.
>