On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:14:27 -0600, "David Lethe" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: snip > > So aggregate walk-away > - Keep disks in 36-42 degrees C for maximum life up to year 2, where > they should be run cooler. > - New disks are 5x more likely to die in first 3 months with high vs. > low workload. I wonder if you can use this fact to make drive which are more likely to fail later, actually fail sooner. I'm thinking that I could run my new drives in a fridge for a month or two or three - if they fail, I'll return them, else I can be more sure they'll last their expected life and not give me any trouble. Does that make any sense? Also, I see people recommending enterprise disks, which makes me think that those same people have forgotten what the 'I' stands for in 'RAID'. Of course, 'inexpensive' is relative - probably to one's income and it seems some people are paid more than others....it almost suggests we should have another acronym - RADCD - redundant array of dirt cheap disks. :) Max. -- 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
