3TB Harddisk sale

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:13:34PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> A friend's Lenovo came with, IIRC, a Seagate drive.  She recently
> had a disk crash, less than a year after buying the computer.  She
> bought a larger WD drive to replace it.  She didn't want to send the
> computer in for warranty repair, as she's a psychologist and has
> confidential patient info on that computer.
> 
> My own Lenovo ThinkPad has a WD drive.

So does my thinkpad.  The ideapad seems to often use seagate drives.

I found a lot of discussions on drive recovery methods and it sure sounds
like the seagate momentum line of laptop drives are rather flimsy.
Some cases the head had gotten stuck under the head park ramp and
otherwise had no actual damage (but needed a new head installed to
recover the data).

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Len Sorensen
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