[lug] 1 T HDDs

[Jason Vallery]

Good timing.  This article just popped up in my RSS reader:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2275009,00.asp

-Jason


On 3/11/08, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>
> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
>
> > I will say that I pretty much only buy Hitachi hard drives.  They've
> been
> > very good to me.  I've had mixed luck with Seagates and fairly poor luck
> > with Maxtor and WD.  We have one client that uses all of the above in
> one
> > environment, and their rate of failure of the other discs is around an
> > order of magnitude higher than with the Hitachi.  In fact, the reason
> I'm
> > up at 8am is one of their Seagates dropped out of the array this
> morning.
>
>
> Almost 100% ditto what Sean says here.
>
> I have only one other comment... the Seagates usually get VERY noisy
> before failure, if they fail the way I'm used to seeing them go.
>
> A quick listen to the servers once in a while will tell the tale... you
> can hear the bearings going South.  They're usually "screaming" loud by
> the time the drive craps out.
>
> This is somewhat true of Hitachi, and Maxtor too, but not as pronounced.
>
> WD just die weird deaths with little or no warning.  I don't use them
> anymore unless they're free, and I RAID them... everything dies, but WD
> seems to die more often... in my experience anyway.
>
> The only drives that seem to die without warning of any kind on a
> regular basis are whoever Sun is using to OEM their fiber-channel disks,
> like you use in the SunFire Enterprise 480.  Those damn things just pop
> like a light-bulb and disappear off the bus, but they usually last a few
> years of uptime before doing so.  Then they're just "gone".  No noises,
> no warnings... poof.
>
> And they're expensive to replace new (refurbs aren't bad, but you take
> your chances), but most of the ones I'm working with someone's paying
> for Sun Gold or Platinum service contracts, so... we just call the 800
> number and ask 'em to send someone over with a drive.  Spoiled, aren't we?
>
> :-)
>
>
> Nate
>
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