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.
I would also concur. I had a Western Digital that failed after 10 months. Western Digital sent me another one that failed in exactly 10 months again. I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece of WD junk. So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or not.
Sevatio
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