Just don't use Seagate ST3000DM001 or ST2000DM001 3TB and 2TB drives. "All
dead, all dead, all the drives are dead."
'Course any of those two models still operating are likely to stay operating,
maybe. Backblaze (a company that operates massive storage farms) quickly
retired all their ST3000DM001 drives from their storinator pods when they began
failing at a rate far higher than any other drive they'd used. Peak failure was
up to 42% vs the single digits they commonly saw with other drives.
They were the first 1TB per platter hard drives when other 1TB+ drives were
using 500GB per platter.
I dunno if the class action lawsuit has been resolved. I happen to have a
defekt one of those Seagates. Would be nice to be able to get a free
replacement, of a different model.
On Monday, April 6, 2020, 6:53:22 PM MDT, Gene Heskett
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Monday 06 April 2020 16:32:04 N wrote:
> You most probably backup data, in Linux the "/home" folder including
> all subdirectories. Not sure if it is possible to save a list of
> installed packages in Linux.
>
> CD-ROM is cheapest if there is enough space, DVD is larger and
> magnetic tape provided you use modern tape drive is the largest.
But that tape is a hugely fragile solution. Hard drives in the 2T
territory are 100's if not 1000sands to times more dependable. Using
virtual tapes on a big hard drive.
They make 10000000 such drives annually, sealed against the environment
so its stands to reason that as backup storage, they are many times as
dependabe than tape. I switched amanda to big drives in about 2003, and
I've replaced that drive 4 times now, not because it failed, but because
I out grew it. Amanda has always been there when I needed it.
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