From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ookhoi Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:53:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20030127055331.E976@humilis> References: Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Zygo Blaxell Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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.