From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:24:12 +0300 Message-ID: <3E37B9DC.20103@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Zygo Blaxell Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Zygo Blaxell wrote: >In article , >Niek wrote: > > >>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? >> >> > >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. > >Even worse, for about 6 hours before some of them died, they randomly >flipped a few bits here and there in the data, which made RAID >redundancy useless. > > > Maybe we should warn against them in our FAQ? -- Hans