I used to buy Seagate drives for their 5 year warranty. However with the capacities increasing like they are the 5 vs 3 years doesn't really matter as much. Out of the 4 Seagate drives (2 160GB and 2 320GB) in my server that are 2.5 years old, the one is already showing 13 reallocated sectors. This might be due to non Barracuda drives being certified for only 8 hours a day. Recently I added have 5 Hitachi Deskstar TB drives in two different machines which have been working great with mdadm in RAID 1 and 5. I actually bought these after using 6 Hitachi Ultrastar TB drives in my work's new Dell 2950 server. The server is setup in a 2 drive RAID 1 and a 4 drive RAID 5 for data archival and has worked flawlessly. The Hitachi's are in the same price range as the Seagate Barracuda's and offer 24/7 runtime and a 1 in 10^15 error rate vs 10^14 for Seagate. Any reason you are using RAID 0 for your server? Normally when I think of a server reliability comes to mind and RAID 0 doesn't offer any. I'm assumming you make nightly or weekly backups? Ryan On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Henry, Andrew <andrew.henry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -- 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
