[NBLUG/talk] Another hard disk bites the dust!!!

[Lincoln Peters]

Back in late August, I had to replace a 160BG hard disk that was failing
but still recoverable.  Thanks to Maxtor's warranty, I was able to get a
refurbished 250GB hard disk to replace it, copy all of the readable data
from the old hard disk to the new disk, shred the contents of the old
disk (for security reasons), and send it back.

Unfortunately, the new hard disk appears to be failing (I've detected
342 bad blocks), and I will have to replace it.  Fortunately, it is
still under warranty (I can get a free replacement as long as I put in
the request by Tuesday), but I can't help wondering why this hard disk
failed so soon after the hard disk that it replaced.

I think I can recover all of the important data from the disk, as I did
before (again "rebuilding" whatever cannot be recovered), but I do have
to wonder...

Has anyone in this group experienced anything like this (i.e. a hard
disk fails, you replace it with a very similar model, then the
replacement fails)?  If so, did you find any pattern in the failures? 
Maybe it wasn't well-enough ventilated and it overheated?  Maybe the
failures were restricted to a single brand of hard drives?  Am I just
experiencing a streak of bad luck?  I don't know where to look for an
explanation.

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Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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