I recall at one company we used Micropolous ( SP? ) drives. We had almost 100% failure in less than 6 months. It did our company a lot of damage.
Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <[email protected]> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 5:27:32 PM To: Ali via cctalk Subject: Re: PATA hard disks, anyone? > 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
