Unfortunately, I don't have any hard numbers, but my experience comes
from the Desktop environment and the "server grade" drives seemed to do
a little bit better than when I used consumer grade drives. Perhaps
that handle power cycling better.
I do wish I had kept really good notes though since I had at least
10,000 drives go though my hands, and it would be interesting.
Brian
On 05/19/2010 06:58 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
A statistical analysis was published on a variety of disk drive lines a few
years ago with a sample size of well over 100,000 drives[1].
Other studies have shown negligible actual reliability differences between
server and consumer lines across large populations.
Quality on consumer drives tends to be more variable, but no lower overall.
I've seen all of the major brands work and fail at similar rates across large
numbers of drives. Sometimes a batch will be bad, and age-in-store has a huge
impact on reliability.
Overall, run load as heavy as your main application will do for the first 3
months, as many drive failures seem to happen then (and it'll be in warranty).
After that, the next spike in failure happens at around 2 years and failure
rates remain high thereafter.
MTBF numbers seem to be largely irrelevant.
Interestingly, SMART data seem to also be largely useless as well.
[1] http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Brian Cluff wrote:
I'll third on western digital, seagates are also pretty good, but
whatever you do don't even start to consider Maxtor. They seem to have
a near 100% failure rate. It's not if they are going to fail, but when.
Also don't go with any hard drive manufacturers budget line or low end
drive, try and go for drives that are made for server. They aren't all
that much more, but seem to have much lower failure rates.
Brian Cluff
On 05/19/2010 03:14 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
+2 on Bonnie++
I also tend to like the Western digital line for IDE/SATA drives. I have
had a few bad ones (out of hundreds), but they tend to run well for me.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Alex Dean<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On May 19, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote:
Hey,
I am buying a new hard drive for my computer and I was wondering
what are some good hard drive stress test and how long should I
let it run for. I also do not mind what platform (windows, mac,
or linux) it will run on. Speaking of hard drives, which brand
do u guys recommend?
Bonnie++ is a disk benchmarking tool, but you can use it for stress
testing as well. Pretty easy to compile on Linux. I'm not sure if
it works on OSX or windows.
alex
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