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 507F913877A for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D731E0AF1; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com (mail-pa0-f41.google.com [209.85.220.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED812E09F7 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id fb1so2456348pad.0 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:16:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Vp9yz+zyTYaVXGET1xDTspZThrDLQwNH5MzYX6CLdTE=; b=ZDVy9jQ+kmWZrdMvVlQQ6+xOp3WJfIkkorY+cHrvT6r8JiJPUejkGX5F78uN3FL0xn PesX4nX/paebVxzzgV5F3gn5C0VArrFNoIe/WmQH5IkmlWSUkpa0ywhIm2d8smxUISYA BRKStnPIkfqMzBnMTFPWDGrQi6nCNuS8LDI3yOpDxzOLdJbzRmTE1FQ+V/AiCTEZzM9R Gyxafs9bGnpgBzWSkxE/UNW+X6y82x7b+HXvJx0tc8PHGxtfYzGQVXnJoxAOBaB4npkQ 6aiXarJGerLUHjUwWmIg3IlRiNRnP594p/Tc7IKO5jh5G7vWV7aTJ1iqAkcnmknyhocj Iq9g== X-Received: by 10.67.11.14 with SMTP id ee14mr16551949pad.107.1403745385851; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (76-10-184-21.dsl.teksavvy.com. [76.10.184.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pz10sm7160908pbb.33.2014.06.25.18.16.24 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53AB7465.1080100@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:16:21 -0700 From: Daniel Frey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <49620f42-d9c3-43b1-9f01-1250e52eb950@email.android.com> <53AA587F.8090300@gmail.com> <53AA7D11.6070909@thegeezer.net> <53AA7EF5.2000903@gmail.com> <53AAFEEE.7020508@googlemail.com> <53AB03C3.9000601@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb936c37-1083-48da-b658-ca8b1cbbc406 X-Archives-Hash: 3649a95c697c1e2f5c391a0bd319407e On 06/25/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > 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. > Anecdotal, but... In 2008 I bought four 24x7 drives (500GB) and eight regular drives to be used in raid. Out of the eight regular drives, six failed before 4 years was up. All of the 24x7 drives are still in use (although I don't remember which machine(s) they're in now), six years later. All Seagate. I initially did do warranty replacement on the failed drives (all drives had 5 year warranty back then), and out of the six replacements, four failed a little over three months in. At that point I went and bought a real battery backed raid card (computer still has a UPS) with WD enterprise drives and no hiccups of any kind in about two years. And disk performance is way, way up. Dan