pff, thought alot about going to scsi, but have always held against it that they make the inside of a pc a total mess. the cables are way too wide., when we are talking serial scsi, i might consider, with the slick thin cables.
in the mean time, i hate the hd manufacturors for the fact that they are making the hdd's a consumer product like say a cdrw. a cdrw could last a year if you're lucky. if your drives are so failure prone, than u could as well skip the whole warranty process.
i work at a pc repair center that cooperates with a warehouse chain, that sells about 15k pc's of same config 2 x a year. they have always had seagate barracuda's(5400's). i like em for being so quiet. since a year they are using the 80GB type. man those are coming back like its a party at our helpdesk. our customers have sort of grown used to finding all their data gone one day. and that day could be even a month or a couple of weeks after purchase. they are falling like flies. those customers are the sort that don't have 3-4 hd's on their system, to make backups all the time. don't understand me wrong, its not as if every drive has already been replaced. only that from 30k pc's sold last year, about 3 - 8 hdd's a day break down. and thats alot more than we used to see. that means that over 2 yrs there are optimistically +/- 3 - 4% of all their hard drives that break down over warranty period (we offer 2 yrs warranty). i can understand that that costs them huge money, as a manufacturar normally strives to keep their failure rate way under 1% (+/-0.2%
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