> Interesting but consistent with my informal observations. My Hitachi > enterprise class 4gb hdd are still going strong after multiple power > outages and almost 5 years of 24x7 on time. Granted not much reading > and writing occurs but the fact that they are spinning is probably > the biggest wear and tear on them. Helium drives? Only if you have > the money to replace them yearly and have a RAID 1 set of a RAID 6 > volume.... I took a look at my 1TB drive stash. They're branded as Toshiba, which, I believe are really Hitachi. So maybe not so bad.
But on those charts, the 3TB Seagate really shows an astonishing failure rate... --Chuck
