RE: HDD Choices

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I had a batch of WD RE2 drives that failed in a RAID array -
well, they reported SMART errors and occasionally disconnected. Luckily
they have 5 year warranty. They're on 24/7.

I had another batch which reported SMART errors on another RAID PC -
something to do with long startup times although that's a false error I
think as I'm pretty sure something else is causing the problem - replaced
PSU, so maybe the MB. I replaced this whole batch (4 drives IIRC) but the
replacements started reporting the same error about 3-4 weeks later.



Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Vargster
> Sent: 06 June 2009 12:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HDD Choices
>
> Paul,
>
> What sort of failure rates are you getting, across which brands? All
> they
> always spinning, idling, powered down etc?
>
> Cheers,
> Lee
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Whatever you do go for, I'd strongly recommend getting one with a
> longer
> > warranty if you have the option?
> >
> > That comes after replacing about 8 HDD's over the last year - all
> about 1-2
> > years old (I do have rather a lot of HDD's here!). Western
Digital
> have a
> > great advance replacement warranty too that I've used a lot.
> >
> > Paul.
>
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