On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM, David Boreham <david_list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > this). The technology and manufacturing processes are common across many > different types of product. They either all work , or they all fail. Most of it is. But certain parts are fairly new, i.e. the controllers. It is quite possible that all these various failing drives share some long term ~ 1 year degradation issue like the 6Gb/s SAS ports on the early sandybridge Intel CPUs. If that's the case then the just plain up and dying thing makes some sense. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general