I replaced a Hitachi "Deathstar" with a seagate barracuda. Two of them 
actually, and they nearly managed to both fail at the same time in a RAID 1. 
Why the seagate? Because at the time seagate has a reputation of making the 
best drives. Really can't trust any manufacturer these days.

"Phil Cook v2" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message 
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> And lo On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:43:07 -0000, Mike Raiford 
> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
>
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   Is it a SATA drive? Check that the cable is ok.
>>>    Those damned SATA cables get loose too easily. It has scared me a 
>>> couple
>>> of times.
>>
>> Nope. Good old fashioned Parallel ATA. The new one is SATA though. I can 
>> understand how they'd work themselves loose.
>
> Well I was going to ask if it was a Barracuda
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/
>
> anyway fair warning to anyone here who runs one.
>
> -- 
> Phil Cook
>
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> I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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