Crappy HDDs Killing Computers

[Roger]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 12:38 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> alan wrote:
> > 
> > I used to heat my apartment with a 4.2gig Seagate SCSI drive.

To be honest i really think that Seagate is much much better than
Maxtor, i think Maxtor is crap, maybe because i have had some really
rotten luck with Maxtor, from bad sectors to total failure while Seagate
has been the most reliable for me.
> > 
> > No, I am not kidding.  It ran that hot.  (And it was a small apartment.)
> > 
> This was a 5-1/4" full height drive, right? I used to use one in an
> external case as a foot warmer. (I think I still have it in storage.)
> 
> Mikkel
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