On 2010-02-16 17:46, Blake Hudson wrote: > Attached was a pdf explaining the stringent quality > control standards for Dell's HDDs. No apology, remorse, alternative > solutions, etc.
That's pretty funny considering the fairly high failure rate of Dell drives. If you actually check the SMART statistics you'll see the PERC often tries to pretend bad drives are just fine. For example I have a Dell-provided Seagate in a PE2950 right now that has logged 100 uncorrected write errors and 10 uncorrected read errors, and has failed a SMART long self-test. The PERC says "2 media errors" and hasn't failed it out of the RAID. Well, I guess this is the year I start diving into HP or IBM gear. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
