bleh

My laptop's hard disk is failing. So it looks like I'm temporarily going back to the disk I bought this one to replace, since I thought that old disk was going to fail eventually. From 80 gb to 20 gb -- ouch -- luckily things will still just barely fit. Also luckily I started backing it up last weekend when it first started making loud noises rather than today, when it first started having DMA errors.

Besides making drives that fail after 100 days of uptime, Fujitsu has a fairly horrible warantee program; they won't send a replacement drive before I send mine in and they want to keep it for up to 45 days before replacing it. And they won't even provide a mailer. Totally useless, except as a way to get a new drive back from them at some point, to sell on ebay to get back some of the money for the non-Fujitsu drive I'll have to buy now.

Or am I just spoiled by other manufacturers overnighting a replacement drive and a prepaid mailer to send the bad one back in? Probably.