Maxtor drives....and no problems....You must be crazy! :)
Well then, uh, it could...., humm.... That only leaves crazy! :)
I give up! You defended yourself well. I have no idea.
Note that it was not me who had the failing disk in the first place. I was just responding to the comment that 14 drives in a case sounded ludicrous. If the setup is reasonably well thought out and well cooled I see no issue. Yes, I do exceed my PSU continuous rating every time I spin up, but as I said I timed that overload at about 1.5 seconds and the PSU does not make any form of complaint.
I hope I'm more than just lucky with the Maxtor drives, but honestly I have had just as bad a run with every brand except Quantum (and who owns them now?). I figure by keeping the drives as cool as practical, in a stable environment with minimal temperature fluctuation and power cycling (this machine is a 24x7 server) then I'm probably fairly likely to get a better than average lifetime.
Sure with 29 Identical Maxtor drives I expect failures. I have a cold spare on standby just in case and the new 15 drive box will run Raid-6. In addition, this is a home entertainment system, it's not mission critical. Just a bit of fun on the weekends.
It's also a good test of the md and libata drivers. All up between the 29 drives I now have 7 Promise SATA150TX4 controllers. Looking forward to hotswap :p)
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Brad
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