On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>> "ah" == Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ah> I've had bad experiences with the Seagate products. > > I've had bad experiences with all of them. > (maxtor, hgst, seagate, wd) > > ah> My guess is that it's related to duty cycle - > > Recently I've been getting a lot of drives from companies like newegg > and zipzoomfly that fail within the first month. The rate is high > enough that I would not trust a two-way mirror with <1mo old drives. >
While I've always had good luck with zipzoomfly, "infant mortality" is a well known feature of many devices. Your advice to do some "burn in" testing of drives before putting them into full production is probably a very sound one for sites large enough to maintain a bit of "inventory" ;> -- Keith H. Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM kbiermank 5430 Nassau Circle East | Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 | 303-997-2749 <speaking for myself*> Copyright 2008 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
