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Unfortunately these drives had a high failure rate which probably didn't help their popularity.
by RedShift1 5y ago
Unfortunately these drives had a high failure rate which probably didn't help their popularity.
- louwrentius 5y agoI wasn't aware of that, frankly. Do you have any sources for that? And are you talking about Raptors or Velociraptors?
- RedShift1 5y agoI used to work in a PC shop and many of them came back. I had 2 raptors of my own and both of them failed after a few years. I know it's anecdotal but this was a niche item so if you see a lot of returns you know it's bad. This applies to mostly the raptors, we never sold any velociraptors.
- louwrentius 5y agoOk, fair enough, thanks for sharing.
- cricalix 5y agoI can't remember if they failed as badly as the IBM Deathstar.. sorry, Deskstar (https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326292-why-lying-about-storage-products-is-bad-an-ibm-deskstar-story https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326292-why-lying-about...). Those things were notorious for failing.