Western Digital external drives

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 08:59 -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> There are some viruses/trojans out there that make it seem that your
> HARDWARE is progressively failing: notifcation that drive is failing,
> etc.

FreeBSD and Linux only here. XP in VBox. I never have seen this.

> so far, knock wood

Done.

When I read Mike's "All drives fail" I first wanted to reply, "no, I've
got Samsung that never will fail", but since punishment follows swiftly,
it seemed to risky to write this even as a joke.

I bet if I would have written this claim, storing the sent mail would
have lead to a click click noise from a drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law

We should be very careful with claims about drives. Experiences are
interesting, but drives that are old and still living can't be compared
to nowadays drives. IIRC the drive in my Lacom Atari thingy is a Seagate
SCSI, 42MB. It's now around 20 years old and still ok. I turned it off
and on several times a day for perhaps more than 10 years. No drive from
the last 10 years would survive such a usage for more than 3 years.

Perhaps this drive will never die, but what could we use a 42MB drive
for nowadays?