Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

[Stephen]

if the are wd drives and your just useing the linux softraid get the
WD tools and run them, they are not destructive and you can test all
wd drives readily i know hitachi and maxtor are the same, segate isthe
only one that is a PITA why i pointed my company to WD over seagate.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Joe Fleming <joe at selectitaly.com> wrote:
> Just using them. They were in systems where they were always on but most
> of the time they weren't doing anything. If they were in boxes, they
> always had fans on them to keep them cool since I know heat kills
> drives. I had one in an enclosure with a fan that failed on me, but I
> still need to figure out if the drive failed or the enclosure failed.
> Everything I've had that failed on me has been a 500GB drive. I had 4
> 160Gb drives in a raid array that ran for like 2 years and I still use
> them now in USB enclosures, some of which I keep on all the time. I've
> only had 1 of them fail on me, and I think it may have been a corruption
> failure instead of a physical failure, I just didn't care enough to look
> in to it.
>
> I've only had one drive that was in constant use as a torrent target
> fail on me, and I was able to restore all of the data on it with some
> xfs tools and dd magic and a new drive to clone it to..... just had to
> work around some unreadable sectors. That drive, of course, was a 500GB
> drive. The drive that it was cloned to, another 500GB drive, is also now
> starting to make clicking noises from time to time and I'm just waiting
> for it to fail completely. At least I have that one on active backup
> now. I've also had 500GB drives show up DOA without even turning them on.
>
> If you read the reviews on Newegg on older drives (320GB and below) they
> all seem really solid. Read the reviews on newer drives (500B and up)
> and you see a lot of mixed reviews cause by DOA problems and drives that
> have failed after only weeks of use. It's at least a little comforting
> to know I'm not alone here. I will admit I buy most of my drives OEM but
> I've also had really bad luck with a lot or retail drives too, so I
> don't think it matters as much as some people will tell you.
>
> I've had terrible experiences with WD drives in the past (specifically
> models ending in JB) and I've spoken to people in recovery centers
> who've seen tons of those drives come in for recovery. I wrote WD off
> for years because of those problems, but it seems Seagate is also a
> problem now too. Hitachi I've tried to stay away from since the whole
> "Deathstar" fiasco several years back. Yes that was IBM, but Hitachi
> took over their production. But I digress.
>
> Anyway, that's my story, since you asked. Sorry it's so long winded.
>
> -Joe
>
> Eric Cope wrote:
>> This is more in regards to your last paragraph. Where are you storing
>> your hard drives? What type of environment are they subjected to?
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Stephen