On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade
lifetimes.
That doesn't surprise me. They're often the exact same hard disk
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
Apparently, the drives could get into sync harmonic motion with the new
setup. We had 3-4 drive failures in one week. The new drives had different
firmware that prevented this.
Wow. That's a great anecdote. This is why
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several
times.
Well, that's good to know. :)
Just curious, did you get a chance
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade lifetimes.
That doesn't surprise me. They're often the exact same hard disk
assembly, just with different firmware, or maybe a different PCB.
Despire
On Tue, February 23, 2010 5:43 pm, Benjamin Scott wrote:
While I run smartd in monitor mode, I've never had it give me a
useful pre-failure alert. Likewise, I've never had the SMART health check
in PC BIOSes give me a useful pre-failure alert. More than once I've seen
SMART report the
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several
times.
Well, that's good to know. :)
Just curious, did you get a chance to see if any of them actually
started failing soon after?
Like I said, I
