[ltp] Harddrive is blowing up... I need some advice

[Aaron Mulder]

	For what it's worth, we've used at least 10 OEM 60/7200 Hitachi
drives (I assume this is what was meant by "IBM drives") and we've had 2
failures -- one died within the first 24 hours, and one died a couple days
after the laptop was dropped from a height of 3 feet or so.  We haven't
had any unexplained "mid-life crises", and they perform pretty well.  
Still, I guess the ratio isn't that great.  :)

Aaron

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, James Knott wrote:
> James Hawtin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:12:53AM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
> > 
> >>My understanding is that lower rpm HDDs could potentially last longer
> >>than the higher rpm ones.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Higher speed and larger drives also draw more power. 
> > 
> > James
> 
> However, newer drives may be more efficient than older ones.
> 
> -- 
> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>