On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:43:16 -0700 Paul Saab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The WD5000YS issues are due to a firmware bug > http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=15&swid=57
No RAID, bad sectors. BTW, RAID would have been of little help here, as both of the disks failed at about the same timeframe. Even the "bad" LBAs were close :) [and no, I don't have a PSU|heat|vibration|etc problem: other 3 HDDs (Seagates and Fujitsu) hooked up to the same machine work perfectly well to this day]. Read recent reviews/comments. > > Western Digital harddisks are notoriously unreliable (I just had 2 > > WD5000YS fail recently, at about the same time; one had ~200 hrs on > > it, the other ~1700h), especially the YS models. Also, WDC won't > > replace them... Beware. > > > > [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
