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Re: [LUG] Bah! Disks! Bah!

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:

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)

It's only 8 months old too. Ho hum!

Anyone got any recomendations for good reliable SATA disks in the 500-700GB size range?

Gordon

I hope they're still under guarantee.
I'd recommend some investigation as to what went wrong - do you do thermal/voltage monitoring.
Worth configuring as much as you can otherwise it might happen again.
Having said that these gell electrolyte capacitors everyone is using these days seem to last guarantee period plus a couple of weeks.
Tom te tom te tom


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