------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: How often do you have hard drive failures of your music server? - 1 or more a year - 2 or more in mutliple years - Never - All the time ------------------------------------------------------------------------
amey01;323455 Wrote: > Yes for sure. My experience was when no drive died, but the whole array > got corrupted. Unsavable. Dead. Amen to that. I've seen an Adaptec RAID controller go faulty and scribble over all five drives simultaneously. As others have said, RAID is not a substitute for backup. I'll go further and suggest that RAID only makes sense in two scenarios: 1. You're running a critical system that must stay running if a spindle fails. 2. You need the disk read performance boost that can come from striping. Neither of these strikes me as relevant in a home media server. As for the original question in this thread: I've seen perhaps half a dozen disks go bad over the course of about 20 years I've been using PCs. They cover the full range of device types (ESDI, SCSI, EIDE, PATA, SATA) from a variety of manufacturers (Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, etc). Whether a disk fails seems entirely random, nothing to do with manufacturer or technology. I even have a 30GB IBM "Deathstar" which refuses to die - I'd like to have the excuse to replace it! (I've known one case where a disk had a good excuse for failing. It was in my wife's work PC which was blown up by the Buncefield oil depot explosion - it sort of worked but had a lot of bad spots. Amazingly the other disk in that PC still works to this day!) -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
