Guys, I'm serious: HOW are you getting so many drives to fail? NetApp stuffs data center racks with upwards of 84 Maxtor 350GB drives, with failure rates of about 1-2 per operating year (about 2.5%).
Yeah, the bigger 7800rpm and up Maxtor drives run a little warm, but with just a tiny bit of ventilation, they cool right down. Everyone I know who runs more than one bit HDD uses HDD coolers with 'em. It doesn't take much air, strategically placed, and the drives are nice 'n cool. I have four Maxtor drives in unventilated, uncooled USB 2.0 enclosures and they are working like a champ: 1 80GB, 1 200Gb and two 250GB. They get warm, but I perch the unit on something to get air flowing around them and they do fine. Look: Maxtor has never put cash in my pocket, so I really don't care about feverishly defending their product quality. And Seagate is a fine product line, but I DO care about finding out how you guys saw such incredible failure rates - I'd like to avoid doing whatever it was that caused them to fail so dramatically. JKB On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:21 -0400, Ed Hill wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 18:04 -0400, Richard Ryder wrote: > > I've had very similar experiences with the Maxtor 250GB SATA drives. We > > ended > > up replacing about 32 of them with Seagates I think just to get the a little > > more peace of mind. Their failure rate was very, very high. > > Yes, and I know of another group that experienced this problem. Maxtor > apparently made a few models of 250GB ATA/SATA drives that ran very hot. > If you used the drives continuously, many died within (or shortly after) > their 1yr warranty period. > > Ed > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
