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The vast majority of hard drives today, aimed for consumer market, are |
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very low in quality assurance. I make servers, (Some of them in a low |
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cost basis, IDE obligated). In not so ancient times, the good manufacture |
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and extended warranty of HD's were a normal offering to the IDE customer. |
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But now and the past year I saw a lot of inconsistence in HD matters, one |
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80 GB Western digital Failed at 1 month, many others slowly but |
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completely vanished of any other use. |
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I believe that the HD industry as a whole are moving to SATA, and IDE are |
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seeing just like "very low end market" diminishing warranties at 1 year |
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in almost all the models, (And Many with 8 mb cache also). And sub |
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arranges plants to china and other manufacturers to comply with their |
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lines of market. |
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This is not a problem of which or what brand. In a consequence I think |
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now the HD's as a disposable "Temporal" storage of information. |
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If you want to save better your info, (And money), Purchase an Optorite |
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or Sanyo DVD+/- burner and use it to squeeze 1.4 gb on normal 700 mb |
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cd's. (HD-burn). |
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With that amount of Backup potential, you can add dynamism to the backups |
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and stop keeping valuable information on the now crappy drives. |
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But today there are a few to confident at. Western Digital DD120x. And |
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Maxtor 6Y120x Are still good for 2 year al least 7*24 service. |
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But now, in my service warranties, after a year on any brand, I change |
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the HD's if the server task is critical at 1.5 years period. |
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Raid also does not offer a better offering because it multiplies the |
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probability of failure 2 times. |
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RAID, I believe it works best on their native "Quality" server design and |
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manufacture: SCSI. |
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Putting for example 4 IDE HD's In 2 RAID channels stressed the Power |
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supply (Chinese and consumer conceived also), and this probably lead to |
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disaster on the long run. |
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So, One SCSI, without RAID, is better (Thinking on probabilities), Due to |
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the manufacture Quality assurance differences. |
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It is the same reason because the airplanes are safer with less motors, |
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(Contrary of the public opinion and feeling). Or in a car, Purchase two |
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"Unbranded" tires instead of a new Michelin. |
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Best Regards. |
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Julio. |
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:32:55 -0400, "Venkat Manakkal" |
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<venkat@××××××××××.com> said: |
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> > harddrives die, that's what they do. the only question is when, and |
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> > that's pretty much a lottery. this is why you have backups and RAID |
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> > for important data. |
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> And don't forget cooling. Any modern server must be in a temp controlled |
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> environment otherwise you are just fooling yourselves. |
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> At home, hard drive coolers are a must and don't forget to clean those |
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> dust filters. My machine recently relocated to the basement at home to |
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> keep from the home heating system cooking it. |
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> ---Venkat. |
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