> Well just don't count a drive not failing. It's always a matter of > when, not if. And yes, as we increase the number of drives, the chances > of a single failure go up.
Yeah, I was responding to the 'backup, backup, backup' part, just the rate of failure he was citing. I totally agree that you should back up anything important. I do so to an external drive myself, but I get lazy about it because I've had no problems for a long time. > Certainly factors like power supplies has a tremendous influence on the > statistics. In fact I think they'd play a large role in disk failures. > Clean power will make your disks run longer. No doubt about it. This > is often something overlooked by folks. Definitely agree. I quit using stock power supplies after I had 3 of them go out within 6 months. Since then I've bought mainly Enermax, but my last one was a CoolerMaster, and both have been very stable. Haven't had any component failures since then, although I did have to return a video card because they put a molex connector instead of the PCI-X power connector, so it was unable to draw enough juice to power itself (the difference being that a molex can pull power from only 1 rail whereas a PCI-X connector can pull power from 2, and very few power supplies have enough wattage on a single rail to power the latest high-end video cards). Greg /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
