[gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive

[gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive

[drobbins]

Hi All,

Guess what?  Another defective hard drive -- a bad block.  This time, it was a
new (Jul 2000) IBM 30 gigger.  We're now running on an IBM 15 Gb drive and
hoping that it will survive the next week :/  No data was lost.  We seem to
be losing 15Gb every two weeks... hopefully, IBM will replace these drives
in time.

I'm trying to find some reason for the multiple drive failures in such a 
short period of time.  The only thing I can find is that both defective
drives were manufactured at IBM's Hungary plant in ~Jul 2000.  I'm guessing
there's a batch of bad hard drives coming from there, maybe due to a batch
of bad parts or low quality control at this particular plant?  Anyways, I
have a 45Gb drive (matching the one that failed a week or two ago, also made
in Hungary at about the same time) and we'll see if *it* lasts.

Remember: system failures always happen on Sundays

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive

[Andreas Jonsson]

May I ask how you purchased your IBM drives? I've had several friends (and heard stories from other people on the internet) have their IBM drives, which they bought via mail 
order, fail (my friends bought drives from datorbutiken.com). Maybe IBM drives are just more fragile than other harddrives? Drives which they purchased in a "real" store worked 
just fine... Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's not.

- Andreas

2001-03-25 17:32:56, <drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Guess what?  Another defective hard drive -- a bad block.  This time, it was a
>new (Jul 2000) IBM 30 gigger.  We're now running on an IBM 15 Gb drive and
>hoping that it will survive the next week :/  No data was lost.  We seem to
>be losing 15Gb every two weeks... hopefully, IBM will replace these drives
>in time.
>
>I'm trying to find some reason for the multiple drive failures in such a 
>short period of time.  The only thing I can find is that both defective
>drives were manufactured at IBM's Hungary plant in ~Jul 2000.  I'm guessing
>there's a batch of bad hard drives coming from there, maybe due to a batch
>of bad parts or low quality control at this particular plant?  Anyways, I
>have a 45Gb drive (matching the one that failed a week or two ago, also made
>in Hungary at about the same time) and we'll see if *it* lasts.
>
>Remember: system failures always happen on Sundays
>
>Best Regards,
>
>-- 
>Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
>President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
>Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive

[drobbins]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:10:36AM +0200, Andreas Jonsson wrote:

> May I ask how you purchased your IBM drives? I've had several friends (and
> heard stories from other people on the internet) have their IBM drives, which
> they bought via mail order, fail (my friends bought drives from
> datorbutiken.com). Maybe IBM drives are just more fragile than other
> harddrives? Drives which they purchased in a "real" store worked just fine...
> Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's not.

That's a likely explanation -- I purchased all my drives via mailorder from
buy.com and mwave.com.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.