From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: failed command FLUSH CACHE EXT
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:23:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C07666A.7000705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006021742.32232.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net>
Hello,
On 06/03/2010 01:42 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> I seem to have rather bad luck with hard drives. Every time I buy more than
> two, I tend to get one or two failures out of the batch. 25-50% failure rate
> almost. Horrible. I at least average 1 dead hard drive a year since I got my
> first computer.
Hmmm... that sounds really high. Out of how many? Hard drives do
fail sometimes but not that easily even if you put it under relatively
heavy use 24/7. Maybe there is a common cause - say, instable power,
vibration, impact or whatever? Or maybe the universe just doesn't
like you? :-)
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-03 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-30 2:46 via 8237 sata errors Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-05-30 18:40 ` Robert Hancock
2010-05-30 18:57 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-05-30 19:33 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-05-30 19:40 ` Robert Hancock
2010-05-30 19:48 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-05-31 1:19 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-06-02 21:10 ` failed command FLUSH CACHE EXT (was: Re: via 8237 sata errors) Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-06-02 23:05 ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-02 23:42 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-06-03 8:23 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-06-03 8:41 ` failed command FLUSH CACHE EXT Thomas Fjellstrom
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