On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
From a log investigation you might be right.
Bugger, it is a newish disk too.
Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement.
I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had
one server with Maxtors that died
On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote:
I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had
one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year.
Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives -
they may cost a bit more but they're
On Thursday 25 August 2005 15:07, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote:
I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had
one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year.
Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years
without problems...
Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not).
If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they
A. Khattri wrote:
I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had
one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year.
Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives -
they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three
year
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:46, A. Khattri wrote:
I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had
one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year.
Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives -
they may cost a bit more but they're reliable
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:
I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the
first 2.5 years.
That's not too bad compared to Maxtors.
I have Seagate (SCSI) disks in servers that have been running for almost 5
years now...
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Williams wrote:
Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the
drive is still detectable by the BIOS.
Sure - we have a *lot* of experience with their RMA process!
Their warranty periods are 3 year and
above now too.
All you pay is
On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote:
For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find
that /home has become readonly overnight.
Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes
accessing /home and then run
umount /home
mount /home
which fixes it until tomorrow
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:13, Matt Nordhoff wrote:
On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote:
For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find
that /home has become readonly overnight.
Filesystem errors, maybe? That's why I was always getting read-only
partitions... Run fsck
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