John Lange <john.lange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a few discussions recently with technical service people and we > all come to the conclusion that Hard Drives are far less reliable than > they used to be. > > Case in point, I have a 120G Maxtor drive in a server that began to fail > less than 8 months into service. Major headache. > > I've heard similar stories from other people. I guy I know that sells > both desktop and file server systems now says he now only builds > motherboards with some kind of RAID 1 and dual drives because drives > fail so often this saves loads of headaches. After a their system has > died and they 'lost everything' people are more than willing to pay the > extra $150 for redundancy. > > I know drive manufactures were sued recently in a class action for > shipping drives which they knew were going to fail prematurely but that > was a few years back. > > So what are other peoples feelings about drive reliability and are some > brands better than others? I'd agree that drives are not as good as they used to be. I recently had a one year old Western Digital disk suddenly drop dead while running. Nothing could be recovered from it. Shortly after that I bought four Seagate Barracuda ATA disks, one of which was defective. It would work flawlessly for an hour to a month, then shut itself down. Rebooting made it run for a while before it repeated. Compare this to the 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI disk sitting in my firewall. It's been running 24/7 since some time around 1996. > Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data? That would be interesting. -- Måns Rullgård mru@xxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
