On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:00, Andrew Miller wrote: > I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and > other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB > IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these > drives failing and now recommends only using them 330 hours a month, > something less than 50% of the time (see > http://www.sheller.com/ibmpress.htm). My question is whether my use of > these drives in a server application is something I should avoid? > Also, is there a setting for power savings that would sleep the drive > when it is not getting any hits (most of the time). Looks l could add > a decent SCSI drive that is meant for always-on use. Your feedback is > welcome. > > Andy Miller
It's rather a scary thought that someone (IBM) would market a product that is not meant for fulltime usage. If that is the case, I would completely ditch the drives in favor of drives that are meant to be used as proper drives ARE used. Finding "workarounds" for a manufacturer's blatant misrepresentation is not a good route to take - that is, unless you can't get your money back on them. -- Tue Jan 7 13:35:00 EST 2003 1:35pm up 1:16, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.26 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------- stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- ------------------------------------ * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * ------------------------------------ A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
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