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Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
- From: "Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd " <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:08:07 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <E1EXlNS-00062r-Hf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello from Adam in NYC
The lifetime of a hard drive is pretty dependent of how well it was installed.
After years of doing refits and running Linux, you notice a few things.
Heat kills drives. Some drives like Maxtors like to run hot and loud. If you don't properly ventilate, some drives just either get sick or just quit.
Reisefs likes to work best with drives with large caches. I have been running with laptopToshibas with 16M caches and does it run stable and fast.
9.3 Reiserfs is sensitive to flawed hard drives. Upgrading to Reiserfs on SuSE 10 seems to be a wise choice if you value your flying data. Don't trust fsck. Test the drive out thouroughly.
Backup first and see for yourself. Good luck chasing the gremlins.
Adam in NYC
-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subj: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
Date: Thu Nov 3, 2005 10:56 am
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To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Hi,
Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university
to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard
disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the
failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related
and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2),
and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and
on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular
brand or type.
But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of
hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department
running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash
while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple
of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in
the same period, it is starting to look bad. :(
I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher
number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July,
where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them
it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here,
but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common
among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months.
Am I seeing things, or what?
Carlos
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The lifetime of a hard drive is pretty dependent of how well it was installed.
After years of doing refits and running Linux, you notice a few things.
Heat kills drives. Some drives like Maxtors like to run hot and loud. If you don't properly ventilate, some drives just either get sick or just quit.
Reisefs likes to work best with drives with large caches. I have been running with laptopToshibas with 16M caches and does it run stable and fast.
9.3 Reiserfs is sensitive to flawed hard drives. Upgrading to Reiserfs on SuSE 10 seems to be a wise choice if you value your flying data. Don't trust fsck. Test the drive out thouroughly.
Backup first and see for yourself. Good luck chasing the gremlins.
Adam in NYC
-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subj: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
Date: Thu Nov 3, 2005 10:56 am
Size: 1K
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Hi,
Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university
to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard
disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the
failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related
and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2),
and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and
on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular
brand or type.
But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of
hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department
running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash
while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple
of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in
the same period, it is starting to look bad. :(
I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher
number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July,
where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them
it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here,
but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common
among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months.
Am I seeing things, or what?
Carlos
--
Carlos Frederico Lange
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