[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[Rob Beard]

On 16/04/10 14:52, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 16/04/10 14:46, David King wrote:
>> Western Digital hard drives are not known for reliability. I avoid them
>> due to the bad experiences I have read about these drives.
>
> I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for
> years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly backups)
>
> Al
>

I've had both Samsung's and Hitachi drives fail on me, but saying that 
I've also had Maxtors, Seagate's and Western Digital drives fail on me 
too (just so happens my notebook drive is on the way out).

It is pretty good advice taking nightly backups (or at least regular 
backups).  I tend to backup more now than I did in the past, touch wood 
when drives have failed it's not been really critical stuff that I've 
lost.  I now tend to backup a lot of stuff like pictures on to my server 
and also onto DVD (although I also do put some stuff on DVD-RAM disc 
too) and I'm looking at probably putting some stuff on my Ubuntu One 
account just to be safe. :-)

Rob