Hi,

In message , Keith G
writes

Now that you mention it, I've had 2 hard disks fail on a leased Dell (at the
rate of about one per year) - replaced without question (as was the
motherboard on one occasion - unnecessarily as it turned out). I reckon
these were both IBM Deskstars.......

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22446.html

....just one of many such stories that I remember hitting the media at
around that time. They weren't too hot about admitting the problem.
Hoping it would just go away, I suppose.

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Regards,
Glenn Booth