Hi Brad. On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 09:07 +0800, Brad Campbell wrote: > Both have had great reliability, so that's not really a good > data point for you. Well but it's not a bad point either, is it? And when we remember back at the issues (IIRC) Seagate had with the firmwares of some of it's devices, that suddenly stopped working at some special date... than it could easily happen you're screwed with having all disks from one vendor i.e. with the same type. I vaguely remember that back then there were even cases where firmware updates didn't help anymore... but I may be wrong on that. > What I *have* found over the years is the importance of weeding out > early failures. Sure... I ran some 4 passes of badblock scans... well that may not be as intensive as your several-weeks-test,... but 80 hours of constant reading/writing is at least something. Thanks, Chris.
<<attachment: smime.p7s>>
