how reliable are the new perpendicular hard drives?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mad Scientist Jr
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Previously Mad Scientist Jr said:
according to the article reliability has been an issue
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are these kind of drives more subject to failure?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording
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Were do you see that? I see only that the 1.8" disk by Toshiba
may have had problems...

Still, it is a new technology, so there _is_ a risk. Also
there may be risks that only become apparent after perpendicular
recording has been used for some years.

Best approach: Be prepared. Any disk can fail. Even if you have
one with relatively high reliability, you still need to be
prepared for it failing.

Arno
 
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