Drive densities are so high that the error correcting systems and the spare sector swap out system are now vital to normal operations. The Smart system that all drives use is a barrier to real health of a drive. Tools like Spinrite trick the system in pushing the correction systems to work since we don't have direct control.
I run it on all new drives and then every 6 months. Nelson On 2014-08-21, at 11:03 PM, Nick Sklav <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Philippe Miron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't have any specific data but had 2 Seagate drives in Raid failing >> within the warranty limit. Replace them with the refurbished ones and >> without any usage change they are still running perfectly after almost 4 >> years now.. >> >> I guess you have some good and bad (worst) drive. >> >> -- Philippe >> >> > > I have had seagate drives fail within a 1 month of purchase. All i can say is > the last couple of years hdd’s especially the larger capacity drives aka > anything over 500G have horrible life expectancy. Also seems if i format the > drives they no longer report errors and life is good again seems regular > hdd’s even the enterprise ones seem to be flaky in raid setups. Have had > decent results with SAS drives but as always milage may vary. > > Nick Sklavenitis > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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