From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Busted disks caused healthy ones to fail Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:22:12 +0400 Message-ID: <41BFCA04.40102@wasp.net.au> References: <200412150504.iBF54P912209@www.watkins-home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200412150504.iBF54P912209@www.watkins-home.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Guy Cc: 'Jim Paris' , comsatcat@earthlink.net, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Guy wrote: > Maxtor drives....and no problems....You must be crazy! :) > > Well then, uh, it could...., humm.... That only leaves crazy! :) > > I give up! You defended yourself well. I have no idea. > Note that it was not me who had the failing disk in the first place. I was just responding to the comment that 14 drives in a case sounded ludicrous. If the setup is reasonably well thought out and well cooled I see no issue. Yes, I do exceed my PSU continuous rating every time I spin up, but as I said I timed that overload at about 1.5 seconds and the PSU does not make any form of complaint. I hope I'm more than just lucky with the Maxtor drives, but honestly I have had just as bad a run with every brand except Quantum (and who owns them now?). I figure by keeping the drives as cool as practical, in a stable environment with minimal temperature fluctuation and power cycling (this machine is a 24x7 server) then I'm probably fairly likely to get a better than average lifetime. Sure with 29 Identical Maxtor drives I expect failures. I have a cold spare on standby just in case and the new 15 drive box will run Raid-6. In addition, this is a home entertainment system, it's not mission critical. Just a bit of fun on the weekends. It's also a good test of the md and libata drivers. All up between the 29 drives I now have 7 Promise SATA150TX4 controllers. Looking forward to hotswap :p) -- Brad /"\ Save the Forests \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Burn a Greenie. X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \