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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:35 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate |
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>> and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is |
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>> rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago |
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>> was a WD drive. That said, all the other WD drives I have had just got |
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>> to small to really use, and slow when SATA came out. I'm partial to WD |
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>> and Seagate still since I got good long term use out of those. Based on |
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>> your experience, you tend to be of the same opinion? |
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>> Allan, your situation should involve a lot of hard drives. Any |
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>> thoughts? Neil, you have a nice big opinion on this? |
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> Yes, mix drives from different manufacturers. Or buy them at different |
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> times. All manufacturers can have bad batches (remember the IBM |
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> Deathstar?). I bought two Seagate drives a couple of years ago, for use |
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> in a RAID. The only time I have ignored my own advice on this matter |
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> (other matters are way off topic!). After a year they both started |
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> showing SMART errors and one of them failed soon after, the other was |
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> replaced before it had a chance to fail. |
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> Yes, it's anecdotal, but it makes sense - true redundancy means using |
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> different sources. |
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Yep, it makes good sense. Each batch can have one oddball failure but |
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if a batch has a firmware/hardware fault, the whole batch can die at the |
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same time. One could certainly see the point that having say a WD and a |
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Seagate mirroring each other would be good advice. Having two drives |
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that are only one digit apart on the serial number could very well be a |
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recipe for problems, unless one is really lucky and got two well made |
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drives. |
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Given how things are manufactured nowadays and the compact data on the |
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media, it doesn't take much to make a dud for sure. This sort of |
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reminds me of a old saying. A chain is only as strong as its weakest |
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link. It doesn't take much to make a hard drive either really good or |
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really bad. I don't think they aim for really good, just good enough to |
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stay out of the really bad area. ;-) |
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I may have to keep a eye out on a WD drive for the next one. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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