Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/09/2014 13:10, Stroller wrote: >> On Sun, 14 September 2014, at 9:53 pm, Alan McKinnon >> <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ... >>> Google has 1,000,000+ drives, I'll trust what they say after statistical >>> analysis. >>> Rack Space has a goodly number of drives too so I'll trust them as well. >>> I'll even trust my previous employer (an ISP with 10+ data centres) and >>> customers fitting every example of every drive out there at random. >> There is some great information of this kind available - the trouble is >> that, by the time you've tested drives for 3 years, your information is 3 >> years out of date (as far as "what's the latest drive I should buy?" is >> concerned). >> >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html >> >> From this report we should buy Hitachi and distrust Seagate, but not only >> were only specific models tested, for all know both manufacturers may have >> long ago changed their manufacturing methods now. > > Which is why most folks who buy substantial numbers of drives do > something like this: > > 1. Decide what drives[1] you like and take proper statistical history > into account. The answer is often somewhat random and more about "I > like" rather than "I know for a fact". > 2. Buy those drives. > 3. Establish a relationship with that vendor. > 4. If step #2 goes south and you got duds, get replacements leveraging on #3 > > > But asking a random bunch of dudes on a mailing list "what is a good > drive right now" is a useless question. If the mailing list is big > enough there are only two eventual answers: > > - any of them > - none of them > > > [1] This can be 0, 1 or more drive types > > >
I have to agree. I have had a WD drive do a hard failure. I recently had the sector error on a Samsung as some may recall. The WD failure was on this list to but that was years ago. If a person buys a lot of drives, eventually they will all fail. I suspect that every brand of drive has failures that are under warranty too. I'd even bet that every brand has DOAs as well. About the only thing that may help is if there is a known bad batch out there that should be avoided at all costs. Other than that, roll the dice and buy a drive. Then make sure you have backups. Dale :-) :-)
