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Technically, it was the IBM Deathstar, pre-Hitachi branding. But all drives can fail - I've had a Maxtor DiamondMax drive fail after a year, yet I've had one for years with no problems.

 

I've had two 250GB WDC drives die on me in a year >_<
While my ~15 year old ~400 MB drive still works as good as it didn't they day we got it ^_^;;

edit: forgot I also had a 200GB segate drive that also died in about a year.

 

the good old days

 

Same here, did it gave you any wrong space numbers? like in my case I only had 100GB on it but it said it had just 30 or so left.

 

I had a busted 20GB Maxtor that said it had 83.333333333.etcGB free.
Ran windows on my Dad's computer for over a year, then one day it died.

 

No, it started with windows freezing when accessing certain folders (in all cases). Next it started to having problems to find the drive and now it can't even find the drive (not in bios or windows). I'm guessing some chip might have fried on the HDDs PCB, that's why I bought a second 250GB same model to swap the PCBs unfortunately I got the wrong revision and they weren't compatible x_X

 

I had a 10MByte (yes 10 !) full height hard drive that sucked +12V 12Amps (motor) and +5V 4Amps (logic) from the psu, took 2 minutes to spin up to working speed before I could access it but it was ultra reliable and ran for over 10 years before I replaced it with a half height 40MByte

I dont have a picture of it but heres a picture of a 110MByte version which has identical dimensions

 

Dude dont tell me you got one of those when it was the highend...

 

I would make a comment, but I don't want my hard drive to die tomorrow.

 

:lol: thats actually the same thing i was thinking

 

Hell no I would never spend $4000 for a 10MByte HDD :lol:

 

And to think that 500GB HDDs are sub $100 now

 

i think i have one of those bricks laying near my dads router gotta check that some day its burried under dozens of cables

 

The storage business has the lowest profit margin of the entire IT industry.