On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 13:47 -0600, Gregory Hill wrote: > I'm going to have to assume you work in an IT department or something. > I haven't RMA'd a hard drive since the big IBM fiasco about 5 years ago > where they released a ton of faulty drives. I've had dual WD 74GB > Raptors in RAID0 for about 2 years with no problems (using an onboard > promise sata raid controller, then the nvidia sata raid controller after > that). I've probably only RMA'd 3 or 4 hard drives in my life. Come to > think of it, I haven't had to RMA a hard drive since I started buying > good power supplies. Do you use the cheapo ones? If it came with the > case, then the answer is almost always yes (though there are a very few > rare occurrences of cases coming stock with quality power supplies). > Would be interesting if there's a correlation there.
Yes, I work for an ISP and that's what I was referring to. The disks we buy /usually/ aren't the el cheapos, not for the servers anyway. We got one server from Dell that has $500 Maxtor Atlas 10k 146GB SCSI drives. Boy those things are snappy. Anyway, a month or two after setting it up one of the drives went completely belly up. It just happens. Corey
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