From: berk walker <berk.walker@verizon.net>
To: John Lange <john.lange@bighostbox.com>
Cc: LinuxRaid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hard drive Reliability?
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:04:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40ABD9E4.8060600@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084996693.4021.8.camel@ws101.darkcore.net>
I know a guy with a box of dead WDs, and I have 3 out of 5 bad Maxtor
40Gb. drives
John Lange wrote:
>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?
>
>Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data?
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-19 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-19 19:58 Hard drive Reliability? John Lange
2004-05-19 20:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-05-19 21:28 ` Sevatio
2004-05-19 22:02 ` John Lange
2004-05-19 22:42 ` jim
2004-05-19 22:26 ` Guy
2004-05-19 23:53 ` maarten van den Berg
2004-05-20 0:49 ` TJ Harrell
2004-05-20 1:13 ` berk walker
2004-05-20 6:39 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-05-19 23:44 ` maarten van den Berg
2004-05-19 22:04 ` berk walker [this message]
2004-05-19 22:18 ` Guy
2004-05-19 23:40 ` maarten van den Berg
2004-05-20 0:34 ` Guy
2004-05-20 1:46 ` John Lange
2004-05-20 22:27 ` Russ Price
2004-05-20 15:51 ` Sevatio
2004-05-20 4:39 ` Mark Hahn
2004-05-20 7:15 ` John Lange
2004-05-20 12:15 ` Mark Hahn
2004-05-20 13:26 ` jim
2004-05-20 13:31 ` John Lange
2004-05-20 14:20 ` Mark Hahn
2004-05-20 13:32 ` Tim Grant
2004-05-20 14:38 ` Robin Bowes
2004-05-22 5:15 ` Brad Campbell
2004-05-24 13:25 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-05-24 18:35 ` Brad Campbell
2004-05-24 22:38 ` maarten van den Berg
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2004-05-20 13:54 Cress, Andrew R
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