From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B8313877A for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC79BE0A6F; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC17E087B for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.137] (helo=smtp6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WzucC-00011d-Rk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:20:24 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WzucC-0000MO-JB for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:20:24 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06D8C4C for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:19:12 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:19:03 +0200 Message-ID: <2583056.YYLVGMjOln@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.12.21-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <53AB03C3.9000601@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: a881768b-94b0-47d3-a72a-9718ee4687d8 X-Archives-Hash: 74e3f865607f52318ec0c04d6c9c4b12 On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 01:44:23 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> ANY hard drive can fail the day > >> > >> after you buy it, a month after you buy it, and so on, though > >> obviously the probability of a particular drive failing at any point > >> in time may vary by what you pay for it. > > > > or if it was meant to be used the way you use it. > > Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports > that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when > run 24x7. Not hard data, but while still using desktop drives, I had a drive failure on average once or twice a year. Now with enterprise 24x7 drives, the failure rate has dropped to 1 in the past 3 years. That is, for both, using proper UPS equipment. Additionally, I noticed a definite speed increase after switching to enterprise disks. -- Joost