120gig SATA Maxtor drived died after 2 weeks - read

Gee - how much will it cost though?????? :-)

J.

"Jim Morgan" wrote in message
...
M. B. wrote:

I bought my Maxtor 6Y120M0 on June 2, and was happily using it with my
new
system setup. Then around 2pm today, I went to "Save" a file, and hurt
this
LOUD clicking noise, and next thing I know my computer freezes and my
hard
drive is making UGLY noises. Upon rebooting the system, at the BIOS
restart,
my motherboard could not even find the drive.




If all else fails, WD has just announced they will be offering a 250 Gig
sata drive soon...


Jim

John Smith wrote:

Gee - how much will it cost though?????? :-)

J.



I dunno. But WD is kinda like the everready bunny - just keeps on
humpin'.... :-)

Jim

Greetings...

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:22:50 +0100, "John Smith" wrote:

Sorry to hear your news - useful info. Perhaps you just had a bad one?

J.
"M. B." wrote in message
.. .
2003. Kind of scary to have a brand new HD fail after less than 3 weeks of
usage. And this is the first time that I ever saw a HD just die in my 15
years of computing. I guess they don't make them as good as they used
to...

Oh I don't know, I once saw a brand new just unboxed and certified IBM tech installed
- IBM Disk-pack suffer from spontaneous chaotic reality failure - literally self
destructed flinging shards of jagged metal in a 320d arc of destruction... No **** - the
40d arc that it didn't hit was where I and the IBM tech were standing watching in awe as
this stone age washing machine sized "disk drive" exploded like a hand grenade...

Back then the "Computer room" was a seperate foam lined, sound proofed, air conditioned,
raised floor, lowered ceiling, etc.... almost bomb proof room, or else a whole lot of
other people would have been seriously injured! As it was, only about $2000 (USD circa
1986) worth of drywall, insulation, blank 8" floppy disks, and 10" tapes were on the
casualty list...

Now THAT was scary....