| Sounds like a lot of rose colored glasses there. It typically took a really, really, really bad debacle to get that level of attention. Back when I was selling hardware, I can think of a few incidents where certain drives were just known for data loss. Early WD IDE 20GB drives - absurdly high 90d failure rate. Shop stopped carrying WD for over a year after these Quantum Bigfoots - At best slow, and not -terrible- for reliability but I remember them having a really nasty failure mode. IBM Deathstars - Everyone knows about these. Fujitsu drives in the 8-30gb era - I think these actually wound up having a lawsuit over them Heck, back then, on top of having to worry about all of that, Creative lab sound cards could cause data corruption in some motherboards! And yet, only IBM suffered severe damage. People kept buying bigfoots. People kept buying Early model WD drives that bit them. People kept buying creative labs cards that had bad bus mastering.... $$$ |