You guys got me worried too. We have a 16-disk RAID 5 array, it's all Maxtor 250G SATA drive (the company supply the array recommand the Maxtor, since they have the lowerest failure time on ATA), and it's been working good for 9 months now, and we do parity-regenaration each months, found one or two bad blocks which had been remapped after. I will see how this thing goes. Thanks for the inputs! Chen On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Ben Potter wrote: > For me, the average failure rate was around 5 months - however I have 2 > maxtors at home (1 80Gb and 1 60Gb - need to check model) that have been > running for a couple of years without a single glitch. > > It looks (to my highly inexperienced eye) as if maxtor have had a faulty > batch. > > I wouldn't worry about it, unless you start to notice a considerable > slowdown > > Alternatively, try running the smart daemon tools, on checking all of > mine showed up with a lot of warnings - but my bios hadn't reported them > (probably my fault) > > I now periodically check all hard drives (48 of them) with the smart > tools (roughly once a month) - it takes a bit of time - but it is better > than one failing in the middle of the day and a user losing work (and > screaming at me) > > Hope this helps > Ben Potter > > > DragonK wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a Maxtor 6E040L0 40G and it's working perfectly. You guys are > > getting me worried...what's the medium time until failure? I have it > > for almost a year now and never had problems with it. > > > > On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:10:30 +0100, Ben Potter > > <bpotter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > >> Unfortunately it is not just the 120Gb Maxtor hard drives - over a > >> period of about 12 months I bought 22 Maxtor hard drives, of these > >> 14 have now failed. Almost exactly the same problem as markus, In my > >> case, extreme slowdown - followed by sudden failure. > >> > >> The majority of these disks were the slimline models (never again!), > >> but there was at least one normal(?) sized hard drive. The capacity > >> ranged from 30 Gb to 120Gb > >> > >> Needless to say, after replacing the lot with IBM deskstars, I have > >> not had a single disk failure (to date) and will not be buying > >> Maxtor disks again. > >> > >> Thankfully, I also have a highly paranoid backup system - and did > >> not lose any data, and am now running the smart daemon tools on all > >> the critical machines. > >> > >> Just my 2 pence > >> Ben Potter > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Incearca acum noul sistem de dating oferit de portalul acasa.ro > > > > - > > : 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 > > > > - > : 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 > -- =========================================== Yu Chen Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chemistry Building, Rm 182 University of Maryland at Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 phone: (410)455-6347 (primary) (410)455-2718 (secondary) fax: (410)455-1174 email: chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =========================================== - : 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
