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In article <46m88h$53@news.aloha.com>, kaye@aloha.com writes:
> Followers of these groups have read many reports of the Barracuda
> problems -- perhaps the drives are no longer so unreliable, I bet the
> new ones are better.  We all know cooling these hot 7200 drives is of
> course mandatory.  

  I've had ST12550N's since revision 10, and ST32550N's since revision 9
(pre-production) and while I've had a few drive failures, overall I've
been very happy with the product. I've had excellent experiences with
Seagate - both at the local level and at the corporate level (my local
rep involved the VP for Quality Assurance when I raised an issue). Many
of my offhand suggestions have actually been implemented and are now in
the field. And I'm just an end user, buying maybe a few hundred drives a
year, all from various distributors.

> But only the poster boy of arrogance would presume to call the lot of
> them "lazy" and suggest they all didn't follow proper cooling
> guidelines.    Many of people complaining were from large operations
> with many, many drives -- with extensive knowledge and experience,

  I've seen a lot of baked drives, not just Seagate ones. Looking at some
magazine ads, I see a lot of "big players" doing the "slap it in a case
and ship it". The detailed Seagate product manuals are free for the asking -
either do your own research or find somebody dependable to do it for you.

  Size is no guarantee that things are done right.

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