On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 03:56 pm, cubicle wrote: > and there was another who mention seagate with similar results to > yours - yet others swear by them - see? *sigh* I don't disagree in principle with anything you say. I have over 20 years of experience working with and around computing hardware of all varieties, (as well as electronics generally), and am well aware of the complexity of hard drives. :-/ I am also aware that 4 faulty drives in a row is probably God's way of telling me to try something else for a while ;-P~~~~ Frankly, you're taking this WAAAAAAY too seriously. My comment was simply that I saw the IBM drive in my new machine and thought 'oh no - not again' - it was also intended as a wry comment for John - who well knows of the problems I and others on another list we both frequent have had lately with IBM drives. Can we drop this now? Gary