🚀 go-pugleaf

Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au> writes:

>John Clarke wrote:
>> 
>... snip ...
>> Seagate seem to be OK, but I've noticed a tendency to overheat and die on
>> several different models (other drives in the same bay worked fine).  I've
>> never had a Quantum drive fail, but then maybe I've been lucky
>... snip ...

>Yes, you have.  I've got a Quantum Maverick doing the overheating trick 
>exactly as described above.   Never had a problem with a WD Caviar sitting
>right next to it ( and WD is much quieter :). 
                                   ^^^^^^^
                                   AGREED

With so many happy quantum customers here, I was going to keep my mouth 
shut, but just about the only thing I liked about my last quantum was 
that it was or seems fast, but it died under warranty and the shop I got 
it from let me exchange it for a WD caviar much quieter :-), infact the 
quantum used to wake me up at night sometime with its occasional high 
pitch yawn just as I'd fall as sleep.

BTW, I leave Linux on all the time, is there a util to spin down IDE drives?

Cheers,
Paul Pham
ppham@mailbox.uq.oz.au