Re: Hard drive Reliability?

[John Lange <john.lange@bighostbox.com>]

> WD junk.  So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or
> not.

I'd agree with the one addition that, unfortunately they _ALL_ seem to
be junk. Unfortunately, in my discussions with various associates we
can't seem to come to any consensus on any particular brands being
better or worse than others.

Largely that is my reason for posting here.

John

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:28, Sevatio wrote:
> Måns Rullgård wrote:
> 
> > John Lange <john.lange@bighostbox.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>I have a few discussions recently with technical service people and we
> >>all come to the conclusion that Hard Drives are far less reliable than
> >>they used to be.
> >>
> >>Case in point, I have a 120G Maxtor drive in a server that began to fail
> >>less than 8 months into service. Major headache.
> >>
> >>I've heard similar stories from other people. I guy I know that sells
> >>both desktop and file server systems now says he now only builds
> >>motherboards with some kind of RAID 1 and dual drives because drives
> >>fail so often this saves loads of headaches. After a their system has
> >>died and they 'lost everything' people are more than willing to pay the
> >>extra $150 for redundancy.
> >>
> >>I know drive manufactures were sued recently in a class action for
> >>shipping drives which they knew were going to fail prematurely but that
> >>was a few years back.
> >>
> >>So what are other peoples feelings about drive reliability and are some
> >>brands better than others?
> > 
> > 
> > I'd agree that drives are not as good as they used to be.  I recently
> > had a one year old Western Digital disk suddenly drop dead while
> > running.  Nothing could be recovered from it.  Shortly after that I
> > bought four Seagate Barracuda ATA disks, one of which was defective.
> > It would work flawlessly for an hour to a month, then shut itself
> > down.  Rebooting made it run for a while before it repeated.
> > 
> > Compare this to the 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI disk sitting in my
> > firewall.  It's been running 24/7 since some time around 1996.
> > 
> > 
> >>Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data?
> > 
> > 
> > That would be interesting.
> > 
> 
> 
> I would also concur.  I had a Western Digital that failed after 10
> months.  Western Digital sent me another one that failed in exactly 10
> months again.  I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece of
> WD junk.  So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or not.
> 
> Sevatio
> 
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