Re: Hard drive Reliability?

[Sevatio <sevatio@atella.com>]

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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