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markknecht at gmail

May 9, 2012, 4:37 PM

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Re: Are those "green" drives any good? [In reply to]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
<SNIP>
>> My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore.
>> Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same
>> with bikes[2].
>>
>> A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a product range is less than
>> perfect, but even that is quite rare and most stuff ups can be fixed
>> with new firmware. So it's all good.
>
>
> That's my thoughts too. It doesn't matter what brand you go with, they
> all have some sort of failure at some point. They are not built to last
> forever and there is always the random failure, even when a week old.
> It's usually the loss of important data and not having a backup that
> makes it sooooo bad. I'm not real picky on brand as long as it is a
> company I have heard of.
>

One thing to keep in mind is statistics. For a single drive by itself
it hardly matters anymore what you buy. You cannot predict the
failure. However if you buy multiple identical drives at the same time
then most likely you will either get all good drives or (possibly) a
bunch of drives that suffer from similar defects and all start failing
at the same point in their life cycle. For RAID arrays it's
measurably best to buy drives that come from different manufacturing
lots, better from different factories, and maybe even from different
companies. Then, if a drive fails, assuming the failure is really the
fault of the drive and not some local issue like power sources or ESD
events, etc., it's less likely other drives in the box will fail at
the same time.

Cheers,
Mark

Subject	User	Time
Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 1:47 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	alan.mckinnon at gmail	May 9, 2012, 2:25 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 2:52 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	daniel at admin-box	May 9, 2012, 4:32 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 4:51 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 10, 2012, 12:39 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	alan.mckinnon at gmail	May 9, 2012, 2:28 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 3:24 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail	May 9, 2012, 3:48 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 9, 2012, 4:37 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 10, 2012, 12:38 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	alan.mckinnon at gmail	May 10, 2012, 2:13 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	tanstaafl at libertytrek	May 9, 2012, 4:47 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	mike at trausch	May 9, 2012, 5:06 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	tanstaafl at libertytrek	May 9, 2012, 6:30 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 9, 2012, 5:29 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	volkerarmin at googlemail	May 9, 2012, 6:15 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 3:37 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	pandu at poluan	May 9, 2012, 9:39 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 9, 2012, 10:28 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail	May 9, 2012, 11:42 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 9, 2012, 11:53 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 4:49 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	pandu at poluan	May 9, 2012, 6:39 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	tsg at bonedaddy	May 10, 2012, 5:53 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 4:58 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	michaelkintzios at gmail	May 10, 2012, 12:03 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	napalm at squareownz	May 10, 2012, 4:55 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 10, 2012, 5:38 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	napalm at squareownz	May 10, 2012, 6:27 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	rdalek1967 at gmail	May 10, 2012, 2:39 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail	May 10, 2012, 3:53 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	adamcarter3 at gmail	May 9, 2012, 6:52 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	invasivenorman at gmail	May 10, 2012, 9:20 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 10, 2012, 11:01 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	invasivenorman at gmail	May 10, 2012, 11:13 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 10, 2012, 11:51 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 10, 2012, 12:24 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 10, 2012, 12:36 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	neil at digimed	May 10, 2012, 2:25 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	markknecht at gmail	May 10, 2012, 1:17 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	neil at digimed	May 10, 2012, 5:07 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 10, 2012, 6:10 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	billk at iinet	May 10, 2012, 6:15 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	michaelkintzios at gmail	May 12, 2012, 2:34 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	volkerarmin at googlemail	May 12, 2012, 2:49 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 13, 2012, 2:35 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	Warp_7 at gmx	May 12, 2012, 11:50 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	gentoo at dhaller	May 13, 2012, 2:38 AM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	Warp_7 at gmx	May 21, 2012, 2:05 PM
Re: Are those "green" drives any good?	sixgod at gmail	May 21, 2012, 3:44 PM

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