GFY is on a new server as of last week, and it is on a Seagate 80GB.
Thank god ALL the dedicated customers at XFR are on Western Digitials!
Forwarded to me from one of my 6 programmers.
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Ar...pages=01&seq=2
Three major brand hard drive vendors ? Seagate Technology, Maxtor and
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies ? have started recalling some of their
40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in
the products, Taiwanese channel distributors said.
About 12,000-15,000 defective hard drives are estimated to have entered
Taiwan. It is unclear whether the same groups of products, with an estimated
defect rate of 10%, have also been marketed in other parts of the world,
sources said.
Local distributors said they began to see soaring return rates on the hard
drives since late April. Most of the returned drives reportedly suffered
from bad sectors or problems being formatted, and were found to have come
from the same sources in China.
Among the top four hard drive vendors worldwide, Western Digital is the only
one unaffected by the incident, as the company does not have products
manufactured in China, sources said.
It is suspected that high defect rate was caused by the inexperience of
certain manufacturers in China as they were transitioning to new production
processes, sources said.
Local agents declined to confirm the report. While Maxtor agent Xander
International denied seeing an unusual defect rate, Seagate agents Synnex
Technology International and Taiwan Aries stressed that customers would be
provided with complete warranty services if they were sold defective
products. Comments from Hitachi were unavailable.