On 06/25/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports > that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when > run 24x7. >
Anecdotal, but... In 2008 I bought four 24x7 drives (500GB) and eight regular drives to be used in raid. Out of the eight regular drives, six failed before 4 years was up. All of the 24x7 drives are still in use (although I don't remember which machine(s) they're in now), six years later. All Seagate. I initially did do warranty replacement on the failed drives (all drives had 5 year warranty back then), and out of the six replacements, four failed a little over three months in. At that point I went and bought a real battery backed raid card (computer still has a UPS) with WD enterprise drives and no hiccups of any kind in about two years. And disk performance is way, way up. Dan
