Need your assitance - open letter to Hard drives manufacturers

[Gabriel]

Hello all,

This is long - I would appriciate if you will tahe the 5 minutes and read it. Thank you.

I just thought of making a group petition to hard drives manufacturers.
I have been into computers for the last 20 years or so. I have seen many hardware/software problems.
one that really gets on my nerve is the Hard drive quality theses days.
Drives of good make - don't make up to their first "birthday".
In the other hand old hard drives are with far better quality and reliability. I still own and Use my good old WDC23200 (3.2 Gb) and the WDC21600 (1.6) - I had no problem with them whatsoever. to add on it - both drives are most of the time inside my Motocycle cases - I use them as portable data storage - with case. In the motocyclke trunk "they" suffer from high temprature and G and shock. Still no problem whatsoever.

New drives are Fast, cheap and have large capacity. But their quality is bad. and this is by far the down on new hardrives. Hard drive is the most important thing in your system. It holds your OS, application and most important your Data. so what good is a Data container if it fails to do the primary intention.

this is also true about SCSI drives - thier quality is not what used to be.

I don't know what is the cause - but I have a feeling that this is Due to the High rotational Speed. Magnetic density and heat generated by new drives.


I would like to ask all of you tech Guys and Girls from around the world to join me on a open letter to hardrives manufacturer. explaining them that the sittuation is unbareable.
Hardrives manufacturers should take their enginneering effort and put it on reliablity and durability. and not upon speed and size.

Thank you all,
Gabriel Levi

Our strengeth is in Numbers (Tactical thinking...)

Ps - NooNoo/scott, if you feel that this subject is not good fot the tech longe or the Windrivers BB - contact me.