From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: failed command FLUSH CACHE EXT Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:23:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4C07666A.7000705@gmail.com> References: <201005292046.06344.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> <201006021510.52463.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> <201006021742.32232.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:40752 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756569Ab0FCIXM (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 04:23:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201006021742.32232.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Fjellstrom Cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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