Franc Zabkar wrote in news:267f045ortncn8j0dgavhqvhmvd181vas8@4ax.com
> On 17 Apr 2008 13:22:52 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger to keyboard and composed:
> > Previously Franc Zabkar wrote:
> > > On 16 Apr 2008 22:10:18 GMT, Arno Wagner me@privacy.net> put finger to keyboard and composed:
> > > > Previously Franc Zabkar wrote:
> > > > > On 16 Apr 2008 12:20:06 GMT, Arno Wagner me@privacy.net> put finger to keyboard and composed:
> > > >

[awful big snip]

>
> I notice also that Google have an interesting observation regarding
> seek errors.
>
> "When examining our population, we find that seek errors are
> widespread within drives of one manufacturer only, while others are
> more conservative in showing this kind of errors. For this one
> manufacturer, the trend in seek errors is not clear, changing from one
> vintage to another. For other manufacturers, there is no correlation
> between failure rates and seek errors."

> I wonder if the abovementioned manufacturer is Seagate. IME, when
> Seagate drives report a "seek error rate", they are actually reporting
> a seek count.

What else did you think 'rate' meant.

>
> - Franc Zabkar