I currently have four hard drives. A 13.5GB IBM 7200RPM 4 years old. A 30.5GB IBM 7200RPM 3 Years Old. A 80GB Maxtor 5400RPM One year six Months old. A 120GB Maxtor 7200RPM One Year old. No failures......Knock on Wood. I had one problem with a hard drive not being seen by my OS or Bios. Just turned the system on no hard drive. I check the voltage coming out of the power supply connection to hard drive. Bad. Swapped with different power cable. Hard drive was back and no problems. What I heard when the first 7200RPM hard drives came out was that they generated a lot of heat. So I got a hard drive cooler(basically heatsink with fans). I use the cooler for my main hard drive at 7200RPM that is the 30GB IBM. I also make sure there is good air flow around my hard drives. Another note is to make sure you have a good dependable power supply with plenty of wattage. I recommend at least 400 to a 500 watts power supply. Just my 2 cents. Glen --- ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Let's talk about hard drive manufacturers. Just > today... the 4th time I've had a hard drive go bad. > My first and second drives were Maxtors, my 3rd was > an IBM (oem), and my 4th, today, was a Maxtor. > Today's however, came up with the most damage... a > wopping 6GB bad sectors. Luckily, it was in an > unused area of the drive, so I lost no info, but it > has taken up a considerable amount of my time, cause > Windows scan disk didn't want to work... just kept > freezing up at around 95%. Norton Disk Doctor was > freezing up too, but after reformatting the drive > from scratch, Norton was able to secure the bad > sectors. > So... question... what sort of luck has everyone > been having with hard drives? Any streaks on drives > going bad? What brands? > > Next question... anyone know how I can go back and > see specific data on my drive? It seems that after > you do either Scan Disk or Disk Doctor, it tells you > at the end report that you have so-and-so sectors > bad, but after the report is gone, there's no way to > pull up the info to see how much is bad and how much > is good? Any way to do it in Windows? Or, maybe > another program I can buy? > > ---Troth > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > For more info: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk