From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: markus reichelt Subject: Re: The History of Disk Drives Re: reiserfs UncorrectableError (Crappy Maxtor) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:23:47 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040923182347.GA28909@dantooine> References: <200409011836.39112.fluca1978@infinito.it> <200409020917.54494.fluca1978@katamail.com> <20040902084223.GA12217@dantooine> <200409030942.18144.fluca1978@infinito.it> <20040903090630.GA16863@dantooine> <3679.192.168.99.70.1094220975.squirrel@192.168.99.70> <80d7e40904090309525b5a9fac@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80d7e40904090309525b5a9fac@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; x-action="pgp-signed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "Stephen J. Smoogen" wrote: > I think hard drives go in cycles of good/pad drives... and the best > thing admins can do is stay informed enough to keep up with the latest > garbage. right, but (at least) I'm lacking a reliable source for that. Just when exactly is the right time to switch? I'm glad when hardware doesn't give me any headaches... > Find out the disk drive manufacturers that the big boys (EMC, Netapp, > etc) are using and AVOID them if possible. Any website as to that matter? Would really come in handy. - -- Bastard Administrator in $hell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBUxSzLMyTO8Kj/uQRAqqhAJ4hMk0f22dTiYXalvYLasgYWUIzBACeLhBU TKmNyd37179giPUr74Qxq40= =Iq0P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----