From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: Hard drive Reliability? Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:13:38 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40AC0642.7060502@verizon.net> References: <200405192226.i4JMQLB16952@www.watkins-home.com> <200405200153.21371.maarten@vbvb.nl> <00b801c43e04$5c6dfd80$0201a8c0@windows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <00b801c43e04$5c6dfd80$0201a8c0@windows> To: TJ Harrell Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids TJ Harrell wrote: > I've never bought Seagate. Seagate was horribly unreliable in earlier >times, 10 years ago, or so. I buy WD exclusively now because it is the only >IDE drive I can get a 3 year warranty on. I've never had the problems with >them that other people have expressed, but I don't hold high expectations, >either. > I have read that the bearings used in current WD drives tend to wear >faster at higher operating temperatures. New fluid bearings are supposedly >less sensitive to this problem, though. > In any case, it seems that IDE drives are designed as throwaway drives, >constructed as cheaply as possible. Servers generally use only SCSI. SCSI >drives in general are manufactured better because servers require it, and >customers are willing to pay for it. IDE equipment will not be manufactured >as well because the market is unwilling to pay the price premium for >quality. The market is too competetive in the desktop market. Most buyers >don't know about quality, and buy on price. Consequently, drive prices are >marginalized, and quality becomes of less importance. > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > as hard core (read Linux) users rarely turn their systems off, wouldn't air-bearings be cheap and long life? b-