Re: [tlug] Seagate Sudden Death....

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

> But what do you think of the mechanical design of the thing? 

Back in the old days when I had a C64, there was a conductive foil under
the mainboard. It was supposed to be there for static protection, but was
good enough to short-circuit the thing. I wasn't the one who took it
apart, the repairman showed it to me.

But technology has come a long way since then, you probably know how
electronic devices are manufactured nowadays. When the product comes off
the assembly line, it won't be packaged and shipped to the customer
straight ahead, rather it goes through a quite severe stress testing and
QA process. 
Seagate has to make the drives silent to be able to claim the "industry's
best acoustics" and insulators are well suited for that purpose. This
won't neccessarily mean that every drive will be toasted a week after the
warranty is over. After all, my two ST380011A drives are still doing well
(one of these is already a replacement...).