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Western Digital 250GB, Maxtor 250GB Worst Drives ever made
Here at the local medical center we use it to store medical
information of data files, x Rays and other pertinent information. Fortunately we do back ups.. these drives either Maxtor or Western digitals [all the ones we get from CompUSA] and have it in a 1394 Encloures.. we run them quite.. am sure you know how cool we have to get for blood testing... and in spite of that it still fails no matter if they are on a NAS or stand alone 1394 drive on a desktop for the medical officers. Of the 60+ drives we get since September close to 39 of them have failed after 4 months and even after receiving the new ones from Maxtor or Western Digitals they still fail after a month and they were all shipped from Malaysia and some remote countries. I am wondering why these drives cannot be reliable. I have never seen drives performing like this. The originals ones were all Retail versions from CompUSA, NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc... someone should do somthing. AL Information Systems |
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Andy Louie wrote:
Here at the local medical center we use it to store medical information of data files, x Rays and other pertinent information. Fortunately we do back ups.. these drives either Maxtor or Western digitals [all the ones we get from CompUSA] and have it in a 1394 Encloures.. we run them quite.. am sure you know how cool we have to get for blood testing... and in spite of that it still fails no matter if they are on a NAS or stand alone 1394 drive on a desktop for the medical officers. Of the 60+ drives we get since September close to 39 of them have failed after 4 months and even after receiving the new ones from Maxtor or Western Digitals they still fail after a month and they were all shipped from Malaysia and some remote countries. I am wondering why these drives cannot be reliable. I have never seen drives performing like this. The originals ones were all Retail versions from CompUSA, NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc... someone should do somthing. AL Information Systems I'm sorry to hear that, because I just bought a couple. How do they fail? Are you sure you don't have power or other problems? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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What is the failure mode? Others haven't reported this.
"Andy Louie" wrote in message om... Here at the local medical center we use it to store medical information of data files, x Rays and other pertinent information. Fortunately we do back ups.. these drives either Maxtor or Western digitals [all the ones we get from CompUSA] and have it in a 1394 Encloures.. we run them quite.. am sure you know how cool we have to get for blood testing... and in spite of that it still fails no matter if they are on a NAS or stand alone 1394 drive on a desktop for the medical officers. Of the 60+ drives we get since September close to 39 of them have failed after 4 months and even after receiving the new ones from Maxtor or Western Digitals they still fail after a month and they were all shipped from Malaysia and some remote countries. I am wondering why these drives cannot be reliable. I have never seen drives performing like this. The originals ones were all Retail versions from CompUSA, NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc... someone should do somthing. AL Information Systems |
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Andy Louie wrote:
Here at the local medical center we use it to store medical information of data files, x Rays and other pertinent information. Fortunately we do back ups.. these drives either Maxtor or Western digitals [all the ones we get from CompUSA] and have it in a 1394 Encloures.. we run them quite.. am sure you know how cool we have to get for blood testing... and in spite of that it still fails no matter if they are on a NAS or stand alone 1394 drive on a desktop for the medical officers. Of the 60+ drives we get since September close to 39 of them have failed after 4 months and even after receiving the new ones from Maxtor or Western Digitals they still fail after a month and they were all shipped from Malaysia and some remote countries. I am wondering why these drives cannot be reliable. I have never seen drives performing like this. The originals ones were all Retail versions from CompUSA, NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc... someone should do somthing. Yes, someone should. You specifically should find out what is killing them. Either the enclosures you are using do not provide adequate power or cooling or they are being mishandled by your users. I _do_ find myself wondering why you have over 12 terabytes of storage scattered around on peoples desktops on consumer-grade drives in 1394 enclosures instead of using a proper server. AL Information Systems -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Andy Louie wrote:
Here at the local medical center we use it to store medical information of data files, x Rays and other pertinent information. Fortunately we do back ups.. these drives either Maxtor or Western digitals [all the ones we get from CompUSA] and have it in a 1394 Encloures.. we run them quite.. am sure you know how cool we have to get for blood testing... and in spite of that it still fails no matter if they are on a NAS or stand alone 1394 drive on a desktop for the medical officers. Of the 60+ drives we get since September close to 39 of them have failed after 4 months and even after receiving the new ones from Maxtor or Western Digitals they still fail after a month and they were all shipped from Malaysia and some remote countries. I am wondering why these drives cannot be reliable. I have never seen drives performing like this. The originals ones were all Retail versions from CompUSA, NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc... someone should do somthing. AL Information Systems Wow. Extremely valuable data, parked on commodity hardware under control of commodity software -- sounds like bad judgement to me. Whatever your management saved on technology is likely to be spent several times over on legal fees to defend against the class action lawsuits sure to come. -- Cheers, Bob |
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The drive mfg's must love it when one guy keeps sending back dead drives. Hire someone smart. |
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Bob Willard wrote in message news:Y7AAc.50100$Hg2.43223@attbi_s04...
Andy Louie wrote: Here at the local medical center we use it to store medical information of data files, x Rays and other pertinent information. Fortunately we do back ups.. these drives either Maxtor or Western digitals [all the ones we get from CompUSA] and have it in a 1394 Encloures.. we run them quite.. am sure you know how cool we have to get for blood testing... and in spite of that it still fails no matter if they are on a NAS or stand alone 1394 drive on a desktop for the medical officers. Of the 60+ drives we get since September close to 39 of them have failed after 4 months and even after receiving the new ones from Maxtor or Western Digitals they still fail after a month and they were all shipped from Malaysia and some remote countries. I am wondering why these drives cannot be reliable. I have never seen drives performing like this. The originals ones were all Retail versions from CompUSA, NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc... someone should do somthing. AL Information Systems Wow. Extremely valuable data, parked on commodity hardware under control of commodity software -- sounds like bad judgement to me. Whatever your management saved on technology is likely to be spent several times over on legal fees to defend against the class action lawsuits sure to come. True. Maybe the hospital should buy some professional RAID arrays and hire some professional people to run it. I hope they have better surgeons. |
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