From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maarten van den Berg Subject: Re: Hard drive Reliability? Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 01:44:31 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200405200144.31418.maarten@vbvb.nl> References: <1084996693.4021.8.camel@ws101.darkcore.net> <40ABD186.5030905@atella.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40ABD186.5030905@atella.com> Content-Disposition: inline To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wednesday 19 May 2004 23:28, Sevatio wrote: > M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: > > John Lange writes: > > I'd agree that drives are not as good as they used to be. I recent= ly > > 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= =2E > > 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 1= 0 > months again. I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece o= f > WD junk. So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or = not. Me too ! My current vendor gives me a hard time everytime I order a new drive si= nce=20 they sell WD predominantly. I still do not give in, no WD for me anymo= re. Maarten --=20 Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CA= RRIER - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html