[mythtv-users] OT: Predicted hard drive failure; replacement consideration

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> On 20/04/2012, at 8:00 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>>>> I, too, have, sadly, had much bad luck with Seagates, from 500GB up to
>>>> 2TB,
>>>> failing in much less than the expected life
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had a 100% failure rate for Seagate 750G drives. Two failed
>>> simultaneously and trashed my RAID. All replaced under warranty.
>>> --
>>> Ray Lischner
>>>
>>>
>> Yep I've had a 750GB Seagate drive replaced twice and a 500GB drive
>> replaced once but its replacement has yet to be used
>
> Seagate's "ATA more than just an interface" says that if you have more than 1 disc in a box it WILL fail and lo and behold over the years disc failure is almost legendry.
> The rational rebels against such nonsense but stories like the above persist (and their article explains WHY and distinguishes between enterprise, SCSI and consumer disks)
>
> James

one could say "if you have a hard drive it will fail" and have the
same hit rate.


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Steve
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