On 27/02/18 01:45, L A Walsh wrote:
The chart shows Seagate shows annualized failure rates as high as 29.08%. Most are under 3%, but it seems to have, _nearly_ above 1%/year for listed drives.
Note that Seagate had a bad batch of disks ... Apparently the Barracudas (NOT raid-certified!!!) have a bit of a design fault that lets dust into the mechanism. I can't believe they haven't fixed this by now ... And this seems to have bitten the 3TB model extremely hard. There's a study by some web storage company (stores your backups for you for peanuts, charges mega-bucks if you need your data back...) that uses desktop drives because they store a paranoid number of copies. They track drive reliability, and the 3TB Barracudas were just plain awful, to the extent that if one drive failed, they'd rip out the entire rack of 30 or so on the assumption that a rebuild was almost certain to tip several more over the edge. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org