On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 06:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have > become > > unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties > them > > beyond a year now. > > > > > Really? All of my Seagate drives that I purchase here in Taiwan have > 3 > year warranties. ---- actually some of the WD and Seagate drives have up to a 5 year warranty but you have to be careful which you buy (I think the Caviar and Barracuda respectively). The simple truth is as they have increased densities for higher amounts of storage, the error rates have remained constant and they are more prone to failure. Though I have stopped using RAID-5, this link is pretty sobering... http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3839636 and there are varying grades of SATA drives being sold so there is a need to be cautious. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
