Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 19:48 CEST schrieb Unix: > O. Hartmann wrote: > > Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> On Wed, August 10, 2005 6:37 am, Dmitry Mityugov said: > >>> There are Maxtor MaXLine II and III, and perhaps several other > >>> models, that are supposed to work 24/7. > >> > >> Right, i have a dead 250GB Maxline Plus II drive on my desk, only > >> after about 1.5 years. At least its still on warranty. > > > > On the other hand: In the department for physics of the athmosphere, > > where I built six years ago a server for meteorological data, a RAID-5 > > with 4 older IBM U160 SCSI discs still works - 24/7. Never had a > > problem! > > I still own old 1-2 GB old SCSI disks and these are still working, I > also had an old 500mb SCSI disk that was in an old Mac that also worked > but I trashed it since it was that old and no longer of use...
I have an old 700 MB WD IDE drive that still works fine and has about 6 years 24/7 survived. And I also had a 2000$ 73G SCSI IBM drive that lasted for about 5 monthas and was that damadged that Convar sent it back without one byte recovered! And I don't want to remember the 80GB WD drive that lasted for 2 months...... Please, don't discuss about SCSI/ATA reliability, there are bad designed/produced drives and there are good ones. You can't tell before, only experience counts. I can say only good things about Seagates Barracuda 7200.8 drives for example. Some dozends are running for two years without _any_ single drive failed. Also the Samsung (p)ATA drives are still running without any single failure. And WDs once were perfect drices, but they also produced crap. So you can't even be sure by vendor! -Harry P.S.: I'm planning to bring up a FreeBSD site which reflects hardware compatibility experiences as well as long term experiences. I'll be back if I have more...
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