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On 25/06/2014 17:30, covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM, thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> I got a drive picked out at Newegg. $$$$$$$$ |
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>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844 |
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>>> slightly offtopic - i notice that the drive has a 2year limited warranty |
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>>> has anyone managed to get anything from hard drive warranties ? |
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>> Yes. Most manufacturers have a hard drive warranty tool online. Just |
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>> give it your serial number and it will tell you if you're eligible, |
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>> and how to go about it. I know Seagate wants you to run their own |
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>> testing util (which just does a SMART test and spits out a validation |
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>> code which you write down). |
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>> I've gotten the same sorts of errors several times now on my RAID and |
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>> when it happens I just go through the warranty process, select advance |
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>> replacement, swap out the drive, then return the old drive in their |
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>> packaging. |
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>> Typically costs me $10 for HD replacement (I have to pay return shipping only). |
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>> Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them - |
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>> alarmingly often, actually. Anybody who doesn't run smartmon or its |
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>> equivalent is insane, as is anybody who doesn't at least run RAID, |
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>> though anything valuable should be backed up. |
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> Is it not true that you cannot run raid on consumer drives because of |
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> timing errors? |
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That sounds like something EMC and WD/Seagate would say. |
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There's no reason in the world not to use consumer drives for RAID - |
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unless you plan to add the drives to those obscenely expensive full-rack |
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SAN jobs vendors want folk to buy. |
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The reason consumer drives tend not to work in those arrays has nothing |
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to do with the performance of the drive itself. The manufacturers flip a |
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bit in the firmware and without that signature the array hardware often |
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will not use the drive. It often really is as simple as that. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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