> From: mike wilson > > graywolf wrote: >> Still I am interested in how often folks here have experienced >> hard-drive failure, and with which type of drive (IDE, SATA, SCSI, >> other), and anyone else's experience with RAID systems. > > Only drive I have ever had fail is a 10Gb IBM made on 22.04.99 - > started clicking one day aged about seven, I went and bought a 40Gb > drive and copied it. Died about a week later. > > Even the 200Mb drive from my first IBM type PC was still going strong > last Christmas. That must be about 14 years old now.
You just don't own enough hard drives. It's like multi-engine airplanes ... the more engines (or hard drives) you got, the greater the likelihood of failure. Two engines makes it twice as likely you're going to have an engine failure (although you're half as likely to have your only *remaining* engine fail). More hard drives you got, the more likely it is one of 'em's gonna' die on ya'. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
