On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:22 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > [ Actually, I'm not surprised as we are getting patches/reports for much > > > older/buggier hardware... After all we are doing Linux not some other > > > OS whose every release obsoletes the old hardware. ;-) ] > > > > It isn't just about old/buggy hardware (personally I'm using much > > older items). The DTLA disks had "rather" short MTBF, with something > > like 30% returns in the first year after purchase, according to a > > friendly distributor. Despite firmware upgrades, they were unfixable. > > Ah, you meant that it was a DeathStar drive... well, a lucky survivor... In my experience what they needed was proper cooling. I have a 3ware RAID-5 array of 4 120 GB DeskStar drives still working. In a nice RAID enclosure with fans, not tucked next to an overclocked video card and the power supply. -- Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx>
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