On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:24, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:05, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote: [snip]
I'm kinda getting the feeling you guys aren't really too chuffed about the way these drives last. I wonder if that is why they are so , um... inexpensive at lest when compared to the price of the largest available scsi drives. SO I wonder about getting a USB or Firewire one for backups perhaps or to carry a clone from box to box... [snip] Still, is the general consensus that these huge drives aren't really reliable for longer than say 1.6 years? and by two full years of service one could expect a failure? [snip] I find the drives run very very hot. (I've actually burned my finger touching one!). I insist on putting a fan on each one. The temperatures sink dramatically (cool when touched, notice my empirical methods here?).
I think this helps but... It's not been 3 years yet... So I really can't say. What I can say is this with 10 or so drives, and in over 1.5 years, I've yet to loose one with a fan on it.
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