At 12:04 AM 2/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Mark Hollingsworth <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>>...This is not to say that I have a problem with
>> remanufactured/rebuilt equipment -- I have even had a
>> Seagate hard drive that was rebuilt -- but you still want
>> to watch the fine print so you know what you are getting.
>
>   I just had to return a 10 month old Seagate 2.5 gig HD
>(Model ST52520A)  because of a continued buildup of bad
>clusters after swapping the master and slave.  (Yes, the jumpers
>were set correctly).  After starting over from scratch,
>reformatting, scandisking and reloading all my software
>and Win95,  I lost part of my registry due to a bad
>cluster after only 2 days.   Anyway, Seagate says they'll
>replace it with a remanufactured/rebuilt Hard drive.
>
>   Anyone had experience with the reliability of rebuilt
>HDs?   I'm a little leery now.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve Snyder
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Steve,

This is the industry standard.  Of all the EIDE drives I install, the
Seagate drives have the lowest failure rate.  I have experienced
less than a 2% failure rate with new Seagate drives.  When they
have been replaced after the initial 30 days, they are always
replaced with rebuilt drives by either Seagate or the wholesaler.
I have yet to have a rebuilt replacement drive fail in the last two
years...   not that a rebuilt drive is any better...  I just have not
seen one fail.

The idea here is that you have already gotten 10  months use from
a new drive with about a 5 to 7 year life expectancy...  so they
are not going to give you a new one to start over...  *wink*

You could have done worse on your initial investment.  I bought
nine JTS 1gig hard drives last year, (a bulk purchase), and I
had a 100% failure rate with them...  the last one failed recently
after 9months.   I would be pleased that you have a Seagate
drive, even rebuilt.

  Bob


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