I'm going to have to assume you work in an IT department or something. I haven't RMA'd a hard drive since the big IBM fiasco about 5 years ago where they released a ton of faulty drives. I've had dual WD 74GB Raptors in RAID0 for about 2 years with no problems (using an onboard promise sata raid controller, then the nvidia sata raid controller after that). I've probably only RMA'd 3 or 4 hard drives in my life. Come to think of it, I haven't had to RMA a hard drive since I started buying good power supplies. Do you use the cheapo ones? If it came with the case, then the answer is almost always yes (though there are a very few rare occurrences of cases coming stock with quality power supplies). Would be interesting if there's a correlation there.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Corey Edwards > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Home RAID question > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 13:22 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > > RAID 5 makes it so that a single disk can die without having to restore > > from backups. However, it's always possible that two will die at about > > the same time. This is especially true if your disks are from the same > > lot, or if it takes several weeks to replace a disk. > > Or if the disks are in the same computer and you get a power spike. I > just want to emphasize how common it actually is to lose 2 disks at the > same time. Not every day, certainly, but it's happened to me personally > twice in the last two years. In that same period of time I've RMAd > probably 10 other drives for single failures. > > Backups, backups, backups! > > Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
