From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:21:29 +0300 Message-ID: <20030206132129.A19968@namesys.com> References: <3E37B9DC.20103@namesys.com> <3E423155.7080107@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E423155.7080107@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hans Reiser Cc: Zygo Blaxell , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:56:37PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > Oleg, please see if you can construct a faq entry warning against the > particular known bad hard drives. Hmm... Something like Q: Are there any recomendation pro or against any particular hard drive manufacturers for using with reiserfs? A: There is basically no preference, general "the faster the drive is and less seek time is better" rule applies as always. On the other side almost every harddrives manufacturer have a "widely known" broken series of harddrives. The most recent example is IBM's "Deskstar" series disks, especially DTLA models produced in Hungary 200-2001. These are known to fail very often. Also other Deskstar drives are seems to be not very good choice. IBM released a note that deskstar drives should not run for more then 8 hours/day on average. These drives are also known to be very sensitive to temperature conditions and known to fail on overheat. There is class action lawsuit against IBM on that drives series in progress. Bye, Oleg