Thats funny. The first thing that popped into my mind is something a former coworker used to say, "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
Seriously, though, and without turning this into a hard drive flame war, because I know we all have our war stories, but is there a particular brand that seems to fare worse than the others? I know that for me, in the far distant past, I managed a couple of dozen Sun servers. Even though Sun supposedly "only got the top 10% of all Segate drives produced," I had 6 Seagate SCSI drives fail in less than 6 months. It got to thte point where my reseller knew that if I called, to order up a replacement Western Digital. I'm just curious if others have seen similar (albeit more recent) experiences like this. Sorry if this is pushing the limits of off topic. --b On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:50 PM, John Hudak <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting....what tests in bonnie++ did you run? > DB access to a single file? > Create/write/delete small files? > Others? > > Just curious, so you beat the disk senseless with bonnie++ for a day, and > if the drive does not fail, when put into service, how long does it last > (based on your experience)? > How was this one day duration arrived? > (The implication is that if the drive survived the test for one day, you > can rule out infant mortality, and expect the disk to last to meet the mfg > MTTF?) > > I have read several anecdotal articles that concluded USB and FW disks in > their own enclosure have a higher probability of infant > mortality....unfortunately they weren't tested in a scientific manner.... > > thanks > -J > > > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 05/03 10:52 , Josh Malone wrote: >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve :) >> > >> > I've taken to hitting my disks for a few hours with either the >> IBM/hitachi >> > disk-fitness test or seatools before deploying them. >> >> I had a period of time where I bought a bunch of external USB/Firewire >> drives, of all different brands; and I found that fully half of them would >> die after having bonnie++ run on them for a day or less. this included a >> really expensive shock-mounted ultra-high-speed drive. >> >> -- >> Carl Soderstrom >> Systems Administrator >> Real-Time Enterprises >> www.real-time.com >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > >
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