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Quoting Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Had a server creak and groan overnight with disk failures of both drives (mirrored) I'd like to say something like: "What's the chances of that happening", unfortunately, it's not the first time as I had a server some 3 years back which lost 3 out of it's 6 drives in an 18-hour period. All 5 drives are/were WDC drives too. Oh well - looks like this one will limp along until I can replace them in a few days time. (well - badblocks scans of the partitions that are live was OK)
Ahh not good.
It's only 8 months old too. Ho hum! Anyone got any recomendations for good reliable SATA disks in the 500-700GB size range?
I have a couple of Seagate 500GB drives in an USB external case and a Seagate 750GB drive in my server which run 24/7, they're getting on nearly 3 years old now and they are still working fine. I've not had any problems with Maxtor drives either (although saying that Maxtor drives now are pretty much rebadged Seagate drives).
Can't really vouch for Hitachi drives, although I've not personally had a problem with any of my Hitachi drives, they aren't running 24/7 (they're in the wife's PC) and I have seen other Hitachi drives fail after about 18 months. Also had no luck with Samsung drives, I've had 3 identical 160GB drives all fail within 12 months with the same problem, and these were bought at different times.
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