On 24 Feb 2008, at 15:55, sergio masci wrote:

> Seagate has a bad reputation amoung the public but a good one in the
> storage industry. The biggest problem with home users is that the  
> majority
> are not aware how a highly engineered delicate piece of hardware  
> should be
> treated. ESD what's that! Running HOT, must be designed to do that!  
> Came
> shipped in a jiffy bad, must be ok or they wouldn't ship it that way!

I had some maxtor disks i was fairly abusive to (hot swapping etc)...  
had to remove ketchup on one occasion. Worked fine for years!

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