Hanging in there.

[swestrup]

Well, as I type the RAID 5 in our web/mail server is rebuilding itself, now that I've added the necessary 3rd disk in order to have some redundancy. The fourth (dead) disk looks like its going to stay that way. Maxtor's website claims that its 1-year warranty ran out in April. Since when are hard drives only good for one year??? I remember being pissed when they dropped it from 5 years to 3!

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[richgoalie.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, most "retail" hard drives have a 1 year warranty.
Maxtor is particularly bad about it.

I believe Seagate and Hitachi (the former IBM drives)have a better warranty, but if you look at Newegg.com, they list the warranty......most of the OEM drives are 3 years.

Unfortunately, hard drives have gone the way of most other consumer electronics.......they seem to be encouraging that they're "disposable".

Ugh.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Heh, some Maxtor hard drives don't even use ball bearings anymore...

Get some some 9 gig SCSI drives from Seagate, thank you very much! ;-)

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

9 Gig? Nine? So, were talking replacing one 250 Gig maxtor with 26 Seagate drives????

Oops!

[swestrup]

That was me, I forgot to log taxlady out before I commented...

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Small disks are less dense, and thus more reliable. At Environment Canada, the biggest RAID array was a tad more than a terabyte (1000 gigabytes), was constituted of 18 gig drives and was the size of a largish fridge. :-)

I only have about 45 gigs total of data, so I wouldn't be that offended.

At the office, we play around with a LOT of hard drives, and found pretty much anything about 200 gigs and up to be disposable crap. If you run it 24/7, they die pretty quickly, and before they die, they'll have a lot of sector errors that you can only find if you actually read the data (which you don't most of the time, I'd bet).

Really, they sound good, but aren't.