On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:43:08 -0500 > Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > >> None of the failed drives were WD green. All three and the >> previous four were Seagate. I realize that is not a large >> statistical sample. >> > > If you're interested in large statistical samples, on a grand total of > 4000 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ES2, I had to replace 2100 of them over the > course of 3 years. I still have a couple of hundred of these > unfortunate pieces of crap in service, and they still represent the > vast majority of unexpected RAID malfunctions, urgent replacements, > late night calls and other "interesting side activities". > > I wouldn't buy anything labeled Seagate nowadays. Their drives have > been the baddest train wreck since the dreaded 9 GB Micropolis back in > 1994 (or was it 1995?). Funny, because our server (105 of them) all run on Seagate drives a few years now and I have yet to see one fail or cause other problems. But then again, we use Constellation disks, not Barracuda's. At home I also use both Barracuda's and Constellation ones and also have yet to see a problem with them. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique > | Intellique > | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > | +33 1 78 94 84 02 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs -- Yours truly _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
