two major failures after yesterday updates - RESOLVED

[Ed Greshko]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:45 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
>   
>> This evening I removed the HD and installed the brand new hard drive.
>> The
>> machine now readily booted to a PartedMagic LiveCD and I was able to
>> partition the drive to prepare for an f11 clean install which I have
>> now
>> just completed.
>>
>> So in this case it turned out to be a total failure of the hard drive
>> - the
>> machine is less than 2 years old, so a drive failure at this age is
>> surprising, the more so considering it has always been on a UPS to
>> protect
>> the mains supplying it. The new HD is a different make to the
>> original, and
>> hopefully will last a little longer than the previous one! Anyway I am
>> very
>> glad that this turned out to be unrelated to the operating system,
>> although
>> I am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened to the other
>> machine
>> - which was clearly a software issue.
>>     
> ----
> hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have become
> unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties them
> beyond a year now.
>
>   
Really?  All of my Seagate drives that I purchase here in Taiwan have 3
year warranties.


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