I had no idea what drive farming was so I did a search and found this interesting article : https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ On 2015-06-02 19:58, Nathan England wrote: > They state in the article they use the "drive farming" method of > getting their drives. I use exclusively Seagate because I've never had > a WD last for very long and the four WD drives I had in operation all > failed within the last year. > > I have used the "drive farming" method myself and the drives always > fail quickly. They are not normal drives. They are typically "green" > drives which mean they aren't meant to spin continuously and be in > constant use. They are meant to spin up, write data, spin down. Every > drive I've pulled out of an enclosure and used full time has failed > with all the dramatic flair of a drag queen on the strip. > > The standard desktop drives I've used have worked great, and in that > list I count Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi before they sold out to the > horrible beast that is WD. > > On 2015-06-02 15:46, Eric Cope wrote: > >> not at all. >> The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a >> firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After >> the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully, >> however it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing. >> There was data that couldn't be recovered without replacing the >> heads. They offered to take it into their clean room for $750, >> replace the heads, and recover the rest of the data. I didn't need >> it (it was my brother's data and he was too cheap to pay for >> recovery), so I opted not to continue the recovery process. >> >> FYI - if you have data on Seagates, get it off: >> > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ >> [2] >> >> Eric >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Michael Butash >> wrote: >> >> Ouch, if you don't mind my asking, what did it end up costing total? >> Luckily never needed to myself, but people have asked and I never >> have an answer. >> >> On or off-list is fine. :) >> >> -mb >> >> On 06/02/2015 11:22 AM, Eric Cope wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> I recently had a Seagate 3TB drive fail on me. The local company, >> Desert Data Recovery, was able to recover all of my critical data. >> They were very responsive and really inexpensive. They did a free >> evaluation and offered a "No Data, No Fee" policy. I'd highly >> recommend them. >> >> http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/ [3] >> >> Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need >> recovery services, check them out. >> >> Thanks, >> Eric >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > [2] > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ > [3] http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss