[mikeyb]

Some of the DOA for new drives may attributed to poor shipping and handling, so that throws another variable into the mix, so the review figures are a rough guide really. And, if they have a special on with free shipping...well see below.

I recently read a post where a guy orders quite a few drives at a time from most of the major players, he started to get quite a high DOA figures across the board, he then switched shipper from UP* to FedX and the problem went away.

I've seen most of the major players drive fail, the odd bump in the graph along the way, the IBM Deathstars, Maxtor which ran really hot (bad manufacturing process IIRC) and went up in smoke etc.

The one make I never had trouble with was Fujitsu 10K SCSI enterprise drive, they just seem to go on and on, of course all I've said is purely anecdotal

This post has been edited by mikeyb: 06 March 2010 - 05:34 PM