Posted by NunYa Bidness on 11/15/99 11:33

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:22:25 -0500, Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> Gave
us:

>High (789@123.456) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> (many drives freeze up after a while).
>>
>> name a few
>
>Older Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor...oh, heck, almost every brand...
>drives were notorious for having poor extended shelf life, especially if
>you stored them with the drive in some orientation other than flat with
>the label up.

That's silly. Hard drives are made to be used in any orientation.
It is one of the design requisites for their basic function.

Older drives had problems if they were formatted in one orientation,
and then had that orientation changed. They would exhibit read
failures. The fix was to return it to the original orientation.
Simple. Modern drives have ten times tighter mechanical tolerances.

Seagate in particular had to make drives under military contract.

You know... harsh environmental conditions...

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