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| Thread ID: 127342 | 2012-10-18 05:44:00 | Google destroying hard drives | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1307439 | 2012-10-18 12:45:00 | Those drives have had the spindles and platters smashed out of them. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1307440 | 2012-10-18 21:04:00 | Prefect, what calibre made those holes? | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1307441 | 2012-10-18 22:27:00 | Looks like some sort of Press-driven slug did it, to me. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1307442 | 2012-10-26 10:11:00 | Can anyone identify which brand is most prevalent in that pile? ;) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1307443 | 2012-10-26 11:04:00 | WD 2TB Caviars :p | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1307444 | 2012-10-26 14:18:00 | Can anyone identify which brand is most prevalent in that pile? ;) Yeah you've gotta ask: Why do they use those, and not something like Seagate etc? Those just happen to be the least reliable of the most reliable brand ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1307445 | 2012-10-26 17:29:00 | Prefect, what calibre made those holes? That wasn't a calibre, a hombre did it. Assisted by data overflow. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1307446 | 2012-10-26 23:14:00 | Yeah you've gotta ask: Why do they use those, and not something like Seagate etc? Those just happen to be the least reliable of the most reliable brand ;) Most of the drives in that photo were Seagate. Apart from the manufacturers Google would probably know more about reliability than most as they'd have the numbers and conditions under their control. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1307447 | 2012-10-26 23:19:00 | Most of the drives in that photo were Seagate. Apart from the manufacturers Google would probably know more about reliability than most as they'd have the numbers and conditions under their control. They do. They also said one brand they used was worse than others. But they refused to say which. Perhaps it's Seagate, if that's the majority in the pile? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1307448 | 2012-10-27 00:39:00 | "failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age" but since the Google study was 2007 there's been 5 years of model changes and who knows what 2012 results would be. | PaulD (232) | ||
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