Two WD400BBs on various Fasttrak cards in various systems, under many OSes, for about a year and a half to two years. Previous to that, I ran 4 WD205BAs for about two years. All disks involved are still running perfectly, in various systems. Are those IBMs DeskStars? That brand has had tremendous failure rates. - Rich 'Forge' Mingin www.tech-report.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rui Lapa" <ruilapa@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: Experience with ATA Raid > Hellos, > > "Who's got a broken Raid disk?" > > For about 6 months now, i been having a Promise PDC20267 (FastTrack 100) with 2 IBM-DTLA-305040 in Mirror running in a 2.4.17 kernel in a "Data Center" with temperature control, UPS's, ... > About 2 weeks ago "disk 1" (second disk) started giving hardware errors. The Raid worked as wonders, cause, by the time I took the disk out, the system was working a-ok, while the broken disk was scratching a lot. > > This afternoon, the first disk started with the same problem. So I decided, what I should had decided before... replace the mirror with brand new high performance disks. > > ...Shop... > > In the shop, i found out that these particular disks where giving lot's of trouble. Something I already new ;)! > The other strange thing the guy told me was that many "raid" systems where destroing disk's, and he only recommended using Raid in Linux! :)= > > I know that IDE disks are not perfect for 7/24h / 6 months of continuous work. But the price/performance justifies. > > To discover if the "sales guy" afirmation is true, I would like to know if any of you had this kind of "micro-nightmare"? Who of you had a Raid disk broke down due to extreme work? > > Any advice, idea, ... are welcome. > > Notes: I have two other FastTrack100 TX2 systems working a-ok! > > PS: Promise! I'm willing to accept SuperTrack ATA-100 for free! :b For investigation purposes! > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Rui Lapa SysAdmin > WebDeveloper > LinuxGeek > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
