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"J. Clarke":
> The first time you asked it wasn't stupid--begging for an answer
is--you're
> hoping that (a) somebody bought a drive that was never readily available
to
> end-users, (b) was never widely used in factory made PCs, (c) that one of
> the few who does have such a drive experienced a failure, (d) that person
> kept notes on the failure beyond "drive died", and (e) that that person
> reads this newsgroup.
Thanks for taking the time to reply politely.
I was under the impression the U6 was popular due to low noise and price,
the reasons I bought two (googling finds consumer-oriented reviews still
online). A few years ago there were posts to this group implying the U6 was
notably unreliable. That seemed a bit early in the claimed-MTBF to judge.
The replies I was hoping for were along the lines of "mine's been working N
years with no problem" or, better yet, from a computer repair or data
recovery person: "not statistically worse than others." Having not gotten
such initially, I agree that pushing the question wasn't very sensible--and
a breach of etiquette not to be repeated.
regards,
nf