Nicolas, You refer to some IBM/Hitachi drives. What was their manufacturing year? Michelles's drives seem rather old to me, may be something changed in the meantime? My IBM experience is also based on rather old drives (4yrs+).
Cheers, Martin On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:42:55PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-01-25 12:25:32, schrieb Nicolas Huillard: > > > I had really bad experience with the Deskstar (3"5) (aka. Deathstar), > > with a failure rate of 20-30% after two-three years... I have a bunch > > (dozen) of these I ripped off servers because they were beginning to > > fail one after the other. > > So I do not trust IBM/Hitachi anymore, and thus won't buy any drive from > > them in the next few years. I hope I'm wrong. > > Wired, because I have DJAA-31700 (1,7 GByte), DAQA-33240 (3,2 GByte) > DHEA-36480 (6,4 GByte) and DHEA-38451 (8,4 GByte) which are running > since years without any defects. > > Some of these are running on 3Ware 3c6507 (Raid-{1,5}, UDMA-66) > without any problems. Most of them are running in small Servers for > more then 4 years. > > Oh yes, my Develstation is using four DHEA-38451 compiling every day. > No errors detected since I have bought it in 03/1998. > > Greetings > Michelle > > -- > Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 > 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi > 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]