From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org (Zygo Blaxell) Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: 26 Jan 2003 14:42:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. -- Zygo Blaxell (Laptop) GPG = D13D 6651 F446 9787 600B AD1E CCF3 6F93 2823 44AD