Well if you use s
y hardware, then no it's not
Well quite. There's certainly some truth to that. The PC in question is a good few years old now. I think I got it in 2006-ish. But the point still stands that any hardware can fail, old or new.
What was the hard drive? An Hitachi Deathstar?
Seagate Barracuda. 250GB IDE. I've got a stack of 250GB and 500GB IDE drives lying about the place, so I'll probably just bung another one in. Odds are it won't last long either, but hey, as long as it lasts long enough for me to set up my last A1200, all is good.
On the subject of hard disks and failures, I've had a fair few disks die on me over the years. Some of these are old disks I've purloined, so that's less surprising, but not all. I've had enough disks I've bought new die on me. My server eats hard disks, although for a machine that runs 24/7 for years, it's unsurprising that disks die.
My considered opinion is that the brand of disk you buy is largely irrelevant. I've seen far too many people hold opinions on how they always buy X but would never buy Y. Seagate, WD, Hitachi, Toshiba, it's all much the same. Sometimes one manufacturer or other will put out a bad batch, but otherwise they all have roughly similar failure rates.
Bummer.
At least you can go SSD now, go with Intel or Corsair.
It's not worth investing in an SSD for this old piece of junk. I only really use it for prepping Amigas. Everything else I do on my fleet of fast, modern and reliable Macs!
For the few PC builds I've done of late, I've been buying Crucial SSDs. They're relatively inexpensive and haven't given me any problems.
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