Re: Hard disk crash and solution

[Ookhoi <ookhoi@humilis.net>]

Zygo Blaxell wrote (ao):
> >Title: IBM DTLA 307045 Hard disk crash
> >
> >I bought this disk (46 GB) about two years ago. One of the best they
> >claimed.
> [...]
> >What is the fucking MBTF of these drives?? Is it close to one year
> >like I experienced?

That is quite good for those drives :-)

> My employer used a total of 13 of these drives (various sizes, but all
> the same family) for RAID arrays. We originally purchased 10, and
> replaced the first 3 to die under IBM warranty. After the first 3, we
> started replacing dead disks with some other brand of drive. In the
> end 9 of the IBM drives died. Some days two or three disks would fail
> at a time. We didn't bother waiting for the last 4, but presumably
> they would have died if we hadn't replaced all of them. We took the
> rest of them apart to use as cubicle wall decorations, shaving
> mirrors, etc.

We had about 25% fail within a few months (30 systems). I must say that
the systems ran a bit hot inside though. Ours weren't the infamous
deathstar disks btw.