[PLUG] Dying Hard Drive

[Galen Seitz]

> 
> > So... I'd stay away from IBM drives... buy anything else, really.  
> > I haven't heard of anybody else having reliability problems as bad
> > as the IBM ones do.
> 
> As for IBM, I've never owned an IBM IDE drive, but my IBM SCSI is, er, 
> amazing :-)
> 

Here's more anecdotal evidence.  All of my IBM SCSI drives are still
spinning, including a couple that are > 5 years old.  I just purchased
another IBM SCSI drive, and they still have a 5 year warranty.  
Of course I paid twice the cost of an IDE drive.

galen