On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:58:47PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > <SNIP> > >>> My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. > >>> Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same > >>> with bikes[2]. > >>> > >>> A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a product range is less than > >>> perfect, but even that is quite rare and most stuff ups can be fixed > >>> with new firmware. So it's all good. > >> > >> > >> That's my thoughts too. It doesn't matter what brand you go with, they > >> all have some sort of failure at some point. They are not built to last > >> forever and there is always the random failure, even when a week old. > >> It's usually the loss of important data and not having a backup that > >> makes it sooooo bad. I'm not real picky on brand as long as it is a > >> company I have heard of. > >> > > > > One thing to keep in mind is statistics. For a single drive by itself > > it hardly matters anymore what you buy. You cannot predict the > > failure. However if you buy multiple identical drives at the same time > > then most likely you will either get all good drives or (possibly) a > > bunch of drives that suffer from similar defects and all start failing > > at the same point in their life cycle. For RAID arrays it's > > measurably best to buy drives that come from different manufacturing > > lots, better from different factories, and maybe even from different > > companies. Then, if a drive fails, assuming the failure is really the > > fault of the drive and not some local issue like power sources or ESD > > events, etc., it's less likely other drives in the box will fail at > > the same time. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > > > > > You make a good point too. I had a headlight to go out on my car once > long ago. I, not thinking, replaced them both since the new ones were > brighter. Guess what, when one of the bulbs blew out, the other was out > VERY soon after. Now, I replace them but NOT at the same time. Keep in > mind, just like a hard drive, when one headlight is on, so is the other > one. When we turn our computers on, all the drives spin up together so > they are basically all getting the same wear and tear effect. > > I don't use RAID, except to kill bugs, but that is good advice. People > who do use RAID would be wise to use it. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
hum hum! I know that Windows does this by default (it annoys me so I disable it) but does linux disable or stop running the disks if they're inactive? I'm assuming there's an option somewhere - maybe just `unmount`!
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