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Int'l Fujitsu Hard Drive Fiasco (#572)
Posted: 9/27/2002; 7:57 AM by Terry Frazier
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I wonder if IBM buys hard drives from Fujistu? They seem to have similar reliabiity rates.

PCA attacks 'shabby' handling of Great Fujitsu HDD fiasco. We publish Open Letter from trade association

[...] from the reports we have received from three continents we can conclude, with a reasonable degree of confidence that the MPG3xxx series drives may well have a failure rate in excess of 20% pa (40% within two years of install). Indeed some of our correspondents would say this is a conservative estimate. [...]

[...] “I am a Tech for a School District in BC Canada. We purchased a brand new lab of Hewitt Rand machines about a year ago. They all came with the MPG3204AT 20 GIG Fujitsu Harddrives.As Hewitt Rand has gone out of business, we have been having to deal with Fujitsu Canada directly.

So Far, out of 30 machines, we have had 26 fail with the "no harddrive" lack of detection by the system. That is 86% and climbing every day. These machines stay running all the time. They were fine for about eight months and then they started to fail at a rate of 2 - 3 per week. [...] [ Source:  The Register]
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