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On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:50, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:24, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:05, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
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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...
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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?
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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.
What brand/models/capacities do you run?
-- Thanks, Ken Jennings -- Registered Linux User #326040 AMD/x86 ==> SuSE (WalMart White Box)
As Brand I use what ever is cheapest at the moment. I've only just started buying 200giga, as I watch carefully the $pgb (dollar per GigaByte) curve, and only now have the 200gb drives dropped from the "New technology" exponential end of the curve. But then again that is in Switzerland. You guys in USA get unbelievable deals, like my brother who got 120giga drives for 30$ ea. (One per household) at fry's. So the 1.5 year old drives are 80g and 120g. I put 3 to a box, 2 in software raid, and the third (larger) as swap, Install, temp, and backup (using storebackup). Unfortunatetly, all the boxes are closed, (and most at clients). So I can only give you the ones on my own server. There are the oldest ones anyway: 2xWD800BB (must be at least 1.5 years old if not 2 or more) and 2 Maxtor 6Y120M0 (120g SATA) been running since 9.0 can out (now that is almost exactly one year)... As fans for the 80g, I have a home made special, (a case fan on a piece of bent metal, bolted to the bottom of the 2 drives, I blows over 2 drives, but requires open covers on the front of the case 8-( ) But I now use the disk fans as provided by my local pc-shop: "Just Cooler Pcs" HD-600, made in Taiwan.... It consists of a metal case you screw to the bottom of the drive. Messes with what ever is underneither but I like my tower cases anyway... Maybe someone can correct me but I thought I read that the newer drives require cooling..... Hope this bla helps someone! Jerry