World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: Glenatacme_at_aol.com <(Glenatacme_at_aol.com)>
Date: Thu Dec 7 20:06:31 2000

In a message dated 12/06/2000 4:14:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
xds_sigma7_at_hotmail.com writes:

> As for the ST225, don't forget that they *love* to cook their logic
> boards... there's one spot that gets hot and then the logic board rolls
over
> and dies...

I've also seen dozens of them which heat up after about 30 minutes. The
platters expand due to the heat, and, if you're lucky, you just get a bunch
of bad reads.

If you're unlucky enough to be doing writes while the thing is hot, when it
cools off most everything on the disk will be garbage.

I'm sure others must have seen this behavior from the 225 . . .

Glen
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