From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:37:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+efzgqFXwZHSn=HQdTRPFmrdX7GhsxvtQvwK79R1AhV22Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAAEEB4.6090800@gmail.com>
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
<SNIP>
>> My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore.
>> Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same
>> with bikes[2].
>>
>> A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a product range is less than
>> perfect, but even that is quite rare and most stuff ups can be fixed
>> with new firmware. So it's all good.
>
>
> That's my thoughts too. It doesn't matter what brand you go with, they
> all have some sort of failure at some point. They are not built to last
> forever and there is always the random failure, even when a week old.
> It's usually the loss of important data and not having a backup that
> makes it sooooo bad. I'm not real picky on brand as long as it is a
> company I have heard of.
>
One thing to keep in mind is statistics. For a single drive by itself
it hardly matters anymore what you buy. You cannot predict the
failure. However if you buy multiple identical drives at the same time
then most likely you will either get all good drives or (possibly) a
bunch of drives that suffer from similar defects and all start failing
at the same point in their life cycle. For RAID arrays it's
measurably best to buy drives that come from different manufacturing
lots, better from different factories, and maybe even from different
companies. Then, if a drive fails, assuming the failure is really the
fault of the drive and not some local issue like power sources or ESD
events, etc., it's less likely other drives in the box will fail at
the same time.
Cheers,
Mark
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2012-05-09 8:47 [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Dale
2012-05-09 9:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 9:52 ` Dale
2012-05-09 11:32 ` Daniel Troeder
2012-05-09 11:51 ` Dale
2012-05-10 19:39 ` David Haller
2012-05-09 21:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 22:24 ` Dale
2012-05-09 22:48 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 23:49 ` Dale
2012-05-10 1:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 1:52 ` Adam Carter
2012-05-10 12:53 ` Todd Goodman
2012-05-09 23:37 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2012-05-09 23:58 ` Dale
2012-05-10 7:03 ` Mick
2012-05-10 11:55 ` napalm
2012-05-10 12:38 ` Dale
2012-05-10 13:27 ` napalm
2012-05-10 21:39 ` Dale
2012-05-10 22:53 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-11 0:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-11 1:10 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:38 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 11:47 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:06 ` mike
2012-05-09 13:30 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:29 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 16:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-09 17:28 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 18:42 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 18:53 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 14:20 ` [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 14:50 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 19:57 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 21:08 ` Stroller
2012-05-11 1:01 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 5:18 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-05-11 12:59 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 17:56 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 10:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-11 22:48 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-12 1:31 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-12 18:17 ` walt
2012-05-14 1:44 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 2:13 ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 15:26 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 15:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 15:52 ` ny6p01
2012-05-26 11:18 ` luis jure
2012-05-26 13:56 ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 16:13 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-05-14 17:13 ` Dale
2012-05-14 20:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-15 0:46 ` Dale
2012-05-15 17:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-15 17:15 ` Dale
2012-05-15 21:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-18 12:29 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-05-15 17:25 ` john
2012-05-15 23:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-16 0:41 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 16:14 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:05 ` Dale
2012-05-17 19:13 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-17 18:58 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:47 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-17 19:14 ` ny6p01
2012-05-17 19:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-17 23:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-17 19:29 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 21:10 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-17 18:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 20:13 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:50 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-05-21 3:24 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-07-03 11:11 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [SOLVED] Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:59 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-23 2:10 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-23 6:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-19 3:18 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-19 16:59 ` Arttu V.
2012-05-26 11:33 ` luis jure
2012-05-14 18:25 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-14 19:11 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-14 19:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-15 0:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-15 0:05 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-15 0:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 20:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:01 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 21:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-14 23:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 23:35 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:26 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 21:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-09 13:15 ` [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-09 22:37 ` Dale
2012-05-10 16:20 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 18:13 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:51 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-12 9:34 ` Mick
2012-05-12 9:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-13 9:35 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:24 ` David Haller
2012-05-11 1:15 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-05-12 18:50 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-13 9:38 ` David Haller
2012-05-21 21:05 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-21 22:44 ` Andrew Hoffman
2012-05-10 19:36 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-10 20:17 ` Mark Knecht
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