You're right, three isn't that bad, but it's still about 1% for me,
and considering the cost of new disks, I'd rather not take
chances.
I am convinced that there is a general downward slide of quality
today, too. Disks and just about everything else. Sure, they're
smaller, faster, bigger and cheaper but I think at the expense
of quality. Given that, I'll hedge my bets.
...I also burn disks in for at least 100 hours before using them.
For my main web servers I've beaten on them for 300+ hours.
I've caught two infant mortality cases that way in the past
couple of years.
--STeve Andre'
On 08/23/12 21:06, Alex Austin wrote:
Three out of how many total replacements? It seems to me that, in
general, hard drives are not the most reliable of beasts. I've
certainly gotten a bad hard drive, brand new, off of a store shelf.
Refurbs have always been good to me, but then I don't deal with that
many.
- Alex
--
Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better
than to put one in a fruit salad.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 08/23/12 19:59, Alex Austin wrote:
A refurb of a good disk is fine. A bad disk won't pass the
refurb process.
In many ways, a refurb would be preferable to a new disk.
- Alex
That is not true.
Three times now, I have gotten, or helped others with replacement
disks that were bad. Three times.
Manufacturers are good at fixing obvious problems. But really
intermittent problems, ones where the disk works perfectly for
200+ hours and then glitches, gets past them. I had a delightful
go-round with an oem over this exact thing. They got the disk
and said it was good and therefore did not deserve to be replaced.
Only after several hundred hours of testing did I reproduce the
problem, and got a new disk.
--STeve Andre'
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