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Anonymous at 04:35pm 07/12/2005
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Had 16 of the Maxline II 250gig SATA drives in two seperate RAID5
arrays... 5 of them failed in one year..:( Guess thats why they were
taken of the market. Supplier cant supply similar disks and will not
give full credit anymore unfortunately so whenever a disk fails I
just get a lousy WD 250GB desktop disk now. The disks get extremely
hot allthough they are in a Lian-Li V2000 cabinet with enormous
fan-capasity installed.. are now trying RAID10 with the rest and
backup behind that.. anyone with comments on this can mail me at
ib@breistein.net as Im not watching this thread..After loosing 1.3TB
of media when two disks crashed in one array at the same time I will
allways have backup in any way - and you should have too with these
disks!
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Anonymous at 06:30am 01/25/2004
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Adding hot plugging to this setup (using 5.25 enclosures) wouldn't
have raise the costs too much.. Today SATA is not considerably more
expensive anymore.
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Teyecoon at 04:38pm 11/16/2003
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Well, unless your a professor of mathmatics or can show your
proficiency in the skill of probability past Probability 101, I'm
going to take your "gurantee" that my theory won't alter
the MTBF rate with a grain of salt. Secondly, probability is just
that - a probable outcome or possibility. It's not an exact real
world science but more a "guessing guage".
As a result, the idea of replacing old hard drives with newer ones
to prevent failure and data loss is mute in probability not reality
if any of the drives do fail as the data is gone. Without
duplication of media or regular backups, your trusted probabilities
is going to be a sorry defense.
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GonePostal at 08:47pm 11/15/2003
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Again take a course in probability and you will see you are wrong.
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Teyecoon at 04:04pm 11/15/2003
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It's not necessarily about just basic probability. My theory is one
of failure due to manufacturing quality control defects which I
think would show up fairly early in a drive's life. Secondly, MTBF
as I understand it is determined only with brand new drives which
could lower the statistics since they aren't thoroughly
"quality" tested (used) for long periods of time before
testing which would weed out the early failures. I would be
interested in seeing an analysis of MTBF of say 6-12 month old
reliability proven drives against the MTBF of drives off the
assembly line. My guess is the older drives would have a greater
MTBF rate.
The "weeding" out of the early failures that don't make it
through about a years use would would decrease the probability of
failure in my theory due to this "secondary" filtering of
only stability proven working drives. Of course, this theory only
works on items that are not effectively being "consumed"
like tires as they are always going to be in considerably worse
shape and closer to "failure" after every single use.
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Anonymous at 08:10am 11/15/2003
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This one's for the Century!
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GonePostal at 10:56pm 11/14/2003
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He doesn't know his basic probability and neither do you.
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Teyecoon at 06:07pm 11/14/2003
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How about this one:
How to build an Expandable High Bandwidth Above Average Quality MS
Windows Worstation/Server w/o RAID for ~$3000.00.
Does that please everyone?
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