From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sevatio Subject: Re: Hard drive Reliability? Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:28:38 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40ABD186.5030905@atella.com> References: <1084996693.4021.8.camel@ws101.darkcore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: > John Lange writes: >=20 >=20 >>I have a few discussions recently with technical service people and w= e >>all come to the conclusion that Hard Drives are far less reliable tha= n >>they used to be. >> >>Case in point, I have a 120G Maxtor drive in a server that began to f= ail >>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 t= he >>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 th= at >>was a few years back. >> >>So what are other peoples feelings about drive reliability and are so= me >>brands better than others? >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > Compare this to the 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI disk sitting in my > firewall. It's been running 24/7 since some time around 1996. >=20 >=20 >>Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data? >=20 >=20 > That would be interesting. >=20 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 no= t. Sevatio - 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