Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/23/2014 11:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
As a side observation: for some reason those old 500-800MHz machines with old RAM and old 20-30G drives seem rock solid. They don't overheat and even though those drives are more than 10 years old, they have outlived more modern and higher speed 500G, 750G and two 1T drives.
Yup, that is also my experience. A 9.1Gb SCSI drive will easily outlive a moden 600Gb. A 6.4Gb ATA drive will easily outlive an outdated 40Gb drive. The engineers are getting very very good at building stuff that has a very exact lifetime.
Perhaps its because we have those long lived older, smaller drives around that we get annoyed by the up-front "bathtub" failures of modern drives. 50% of the 1T drives I've installed this year have failed one way or another within the first 4 months; one of them within the first week.
I haven't been counting, but I've had quite a few RMAs of 1/2/3/4 Tb drives - all consumer level though.
Did those old, old drives do this? We don't remember; all we remember is that they lasted longer than than the Energizer Bunny.
I don't remember them doing it, and just the fact that I'm still employing 9.1Gb SCSI drives for swap space is a testament to their longevity. I frequently put a RAID1 of two 9.1Gb drives as swap space in older servers that still have U320 SCSI slots. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org