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There's still a bug in the way you sign up. It lets you login using the CP email but you can't save your settings as it says the account email is in use. So you are forced to entering an alternate email there.
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That's the same problem I had initially until Chris fixed the problem. (?)
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Took me 3 days and about 25 attempts to create an account.
Maybe Chris wants to keep coders out of this site? 
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Why is it that when one hard drive goes, 6 others tag along with it.
Evidently the lifespan of these things is so carefully calculated that when you buy them in the same batch you get very, very similar lifespans.
Hang on - I have another.
Why is it that the faster, the smaller, and the more expensive a server-grade HDD is, the more likely it is to explode on you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Why is it that the faster, the smaller, and the more expensive a server-grade HDD is, the more likely it is to explode on you.
Well you know what they say;
"You get more Bang for your Bucks"
Maybe that is why 
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The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) stat. from the manufacture should be an important consideration before investing in equipment.
It should also be considered for the preventative maintenance schedule for your equipment.
I recently had a Compact Flash card fail for an important piece of equipment....if I had paid attention to the MTBF, I would have replaced it before this happened....of course there is not too much we can do about defective equipment which seems to be the case here, other than rally together as ITPros as a single voice to have manufactures create dependable products.
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MTBF is an important stat to consider. However I find that having one manufacturer often outweighs any benefit of having one thing from these guys, two things from those guys, a handful of things from the other guys.
Typically, cost is King and Performance and Reliability are Misfit triplet brothers that were born 2 mins too late to be King. When reliability becomes a major issue, thats when a new MFG is usually given a try.
When the warranty runs out its time to upgrade or you can just cross your fingers and hold on for the ride. I find things tend to break weeks or months after the warranty expires, and if you buy the extended warranty it never dies. The tried and true 3 year replacement programme is still the way to go in my books. When I do an ROI, its almost always based on the length of warranty.
In our case, these failures happened on older drives, that are out of warranty, and they had suffered from an over heat situation not all that long ago. Its not surprising, but certainly was not expected. 
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Vince Yonemitsu wrote: they had suffered from an over heat situation not all that long ago
Yes, I still remember the fan poking out the back door trying to keep things cool. Those were the days 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I guess the other thing that has to be looked at is were you getting any disk warnings from your system management tools.....event viewer reports etc. which might have given a hint that there was an issue.
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Unfortunately not. The HP Insight software doesn't seem to be roving too insightful when it comes to impending disk failures.
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My lady's desk has been modified, sporting a muffin fan in a cabinet leg, which she installed on my advice. When I found she was running a PC fully enclosed in a wooden cabinet, I explained about the risk of excess heat, and being an inventive, practical girl, she sawed a hole in the desk, scrounged a fan from an old PC, and did the work herself. Gotta love it...
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Oh, nice!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It is a sad day with the passing of Steve Jobs, he will be sorely missed.
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