On Monday 20 April 2009, Jeff Anderson wrote: >On Sunday 19 April 2009 11:02:55 Alan Pearson wrote: >> Without being funny, I wouldn't touch a moxtor drive with yours. >> >> I look after about 500 spinning disks in our company (from servers to >> desktops) and out of the 8 drive failures I've had in 3 years, 4 have >> been maxtor. >> Plus I've had the misfortune to have 2 fail at home, and I swear I'll >> never, ever, touch one again, no matter how cheap they are. >> >> I've got Seagate drives spinning from many years ago, and they're the >> only ones I'll buy now. > >Seagate purchased Maxtor several years ago. They are now the same company. > The diff I can see is Seagate warrants for 5 years, Maxtor for 3.
>> But Dustins right, the minute you see stuff like that from a drive, >> return it or bin it, it's not worth even messing about with the >> manufacturer utilities which may relocated bad sectors etc, the drive >> has past it's 'trust level'. > >I agree. The Seagate/Maxtor 1TB drives from the last year seem to have been >particularly bad. I've purchased a couple dozen and I've had to return > five in the last year. Fortunately Seagate has a pretty easy RMA/return > procedure. Just go to the website and they'll generate an RMA along with > shipping instructions right there. You don't even have to speak to a > person. Great. If, and when, an 'e2fsck -c -c -y /dev/sdc1' gets done that will be next. So far: [r...@coyote /]# e2fsck -c -c -y /dev/sdc1 e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) Checking for bad blocks (non-destructive read-write test) Testing with random pattern: badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device badblocks: Input/output error during ext2fs_sync_device 75.17% done, 28:09:11 elapsed And its hung again on something. I'm watching I/O traffic with gkrellm. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If the master dies and the disciple grieves, the lives of both have been wasted.
