For a three year design
Failures occur, 90% within 30 days, 9% in the next 60 days, the
remaining 99.5% of the drives will get three to five years.

john w <j-w wrote:

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:40:44 -0700, "V.O." <here@there> wrote:

john w <j-w wrote:

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:23:00 -0700, "V.O." <here@there> wrote:

john w <j-w wrote:

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:27:23 -0700, Bible John
<john.doggett@x-files.gov> wrote:

This does not sound like Weatherly. So is this an entirely new poster
or yet another impersonater of myself or Weatherly?

I don't know why I don't sound like me. I'm having computer problems
yet again. I've lost 4 hard drives in a week. That's what comes from
having to buy el-cheapo hard drives.

El-Cheapo hard drives?
There are new and there are used. I know of no new drive that will not
last at least three years and often five, no matter the price.

Unless you mean by "lost" that you misplaced them.

The Know It All has struck yet again.

If you go to www.pricewatch.com

and look up hard drives, you will find a "MDT" 80 gb hdd for under
$100. I just looked and the 80 gb is now under $50.

I believe I got it for like $65. It has a 1 year warranty. And that's
about how long it lasted.

I just called the same company for another, smaller hdd, and the
salesman said-- again-- it comes with a 1 year warranty.

And VO bites the dust, yet again.

And as far as you "not knowing", vo, I have figured out in my 5 years
in here that there are a LOT of things you don't know.

In those five years you still haven't figured out that you don't have a
clue about computers or computer components.

And you are so full of stinky brown stuff that your eyes are a funny
fudge brown.

It was just a few weeks

ago that you were yakking about re-formatting many many times

Was there a point there, somewhere?

Last week, I formatted one hard drive something like 3 times before I
gave up.

It is far from unusual for an OS-- during an install-- to crash. When
it does, the SMART thing to do is to reformat and start again.

That's the SMART thing.

Doesn't mean YOU do it that way, but AGAIN, you have proevd over and
over that you ain't so smart.

I have called my engineer buddy, Bruce, on this exact problem. He told
me he has done installs that took 5 or 6 formats over almost as many
days before he got a stable install.

And don't tell me Bruce doesn't know what he is doing. He's a computer
engineer, and I bet he'd make you look damn silly if you argued with
him.

I REPEAT, in the 5 years I've known you, I've YET to be aware of you
admitting to being wrong about ANYTHING.

I also note that you SIDESTEPPED COMPLETELY any discussion of the
1-year warranty on the hard drive.

I caught you with your panties around your ankles again, and you don't
have the CLASS to admit it.

Like PL, like crawls, you just don't admit that you don't know
everything, but the rest of us are VERY aware of it.


john w

DUUUHHH
They don't give a one year warrantee unless they expect an average of
three year life.

DUH!

That's an "average" genius.

So my hdd lasted 14 months. That's ROUGHLY a year.

One is bad news. It happens.

You seem to have lots of HD problems (at least you say so and I am
taking you at your word) along with a random generator stack pointer.

For a three year design
Failures occur, 90% within 30 days, 9% in the next 60 days, the
remaining 99.5% of the drives will get three to five years.