From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Hard drive Reliability? Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:49:57 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <1084996693.4021.8.camel@ws101.darkcore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids John Lange writes: > 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? 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. --=20 M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd mru@kth.se - 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