Are you sure that it is not just the drive mis-reporting the start/stop counts? S.M.A.R.T. implementions are often flakey.
> BTW
> I had a double disk crash (same symptoms as in this thread) in a school's
> RAID5 with four Fujitsu MPG3204AT-EF (the ones with gel-lager, silent and
> reliable we hoped) last week...
> The shop for which I work from time to time got 71 disks of this type back
> (sold over the last 1.5 years). We switched to them after the "IBM" disaster.
> Maybe a "misdecision" ;-)
> What shall we sell safely, now...?
> MAXTOR?
I have *never* lost data to a Maxtor disk. I have had IBM, Fujitsu, Western Digital, and DEC drives all fail on me before.
It's dissapointing that Maxtor are reducing their warranty from 3 years to 1 year, but on the other hand, I've never needed it at all.
John.
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