Simple's Green Room

[pennies2007]

New hard drives in a lot of these over-the-counter computers have pretty high failure rates. It's been a problem for several years now. The quality of the hard drives coming in from overseas isn't nearly as good as it used to be. What we see more than anything else is a failure in the read-write head controller that results in an inability to read the hard drive sectors correctly.

The new solid-state drives have eliminated that problem but since the technology is new, they're small capacity and high priced, so we're still stuck with the older technology for now.