On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 10:10:46 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Are these 3TB Seagate Barracudas? (Same as mine). You DO NOT want to be > > running raid 5 or 6 on these things !!!! They're desktop drives not > > meant for raid. > > Not only that, but they're known to have en extremely high failure rate: > > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/ > > "As of March 31, 2015, 1,423 of the 4,829 deployed Seagate 3TB drives had > failed, that’s 29.5% of the drives." And the cause is... http://habrahabr.ru/post/251941/ (Use Google Translate if you have to, or just look at the pictures) An unfortunate hardware design flaw, leading to dust from the outside eventually getting into the drive's platter area, and then starting to chip away ferromagnetic particles from the actual platters. -- With respect, Roman
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