0 > terry white wrote: >> on "6-2-2004" "Brandon Evans" writ: >> >> : Lately, a lot of my Linux boxes have had hard drive failures. >> >> ... ciao: >> >> in the not too distant past, word of 'faulty' 20 and 40GB drives >> surfaced. 'maxtor' was one of the names mentioned, but was not alone in >> this issue ... >> >> > > These are all 120 Gig hardrives, some Seagate, some Maxtor, and some > western digital, > So I do not think it is any one manufacturer at fault. > > > -- > Thanks, > Brandon E. > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I have experience with Adaptec 2410SA (sata) (built in driver in 2.4.x kernels) Promise FastTrak 100 TX4 (ide) (kernel module from promise.com) FastTrak S150 TX4 (sata) (kernel module from promise.com) The boxes wich have the adaptec controller are statisticly the most stable (no hdd crash yet) till now BUT these boxes also have the best COOLING system from the others that use the other raid controllers.Cooling is a very important constant that you must have in mind when building boxes with raid arrays that do heavy work (production servers).I get disk failures all the time because of the bad cooling system. Also remember to enable all the loging options in the scsi options while configuring your kernel. -- Alexander Economou GNET NOC - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
