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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:53:58
Message-Id: 53ABFB85.3080205@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% by Dale
1 On 26/06/2014 05:54, Dale wrote:
2 > Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate
3 > and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is
4 > rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago
5 > was a WD drive. That said, all the other WD drives I have had just got
6 > to small to really use, and slow when SATA came out. I'm partial to WD
7 > and Seagate still since I got good long term use out of those. Based on
8 > your experience, you tend to be of the same opinion?
9 >
10 > Allan, your situation should involve a lot of hard drives. Any
11 > thoughts? Neil, you have a nice big opinion on this?
12
13
14 My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with
15 was data center setups where
16
17 - the power has never gone off for 6 years
18 - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after year
19 - the servers were the nice big ones Dell makes with awesome cooling
20 - the data center feels like a fridge and the ambient temp never varies
21 more than 1 deg
22 - the server power supplies are seriously high grade, the 5V and 12V out
23 of them are solid and do not fluctuate at all
24
25 Add all this up and it's an almost perfect environment for drives to
26 last a long time. You don't have that, not even close.
27
28 I have only 1 little bit of anecdotal data:
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30 my nas at home has 4 x 3T WD Green drives in it, going on almost 2 years
31 now. My kids hammer the blazes out of that thing, and ZFS scrubs keep it
32 real busy when the kids don't. And those drives just keep on turning and
33 turning and turning, I didn't do anything special. I put it down to
34 statistics - no-one makes bad drives (or cars) these days and I haven't
35 pulled the unlucky card yet. I dunno, go figure
36
37 --
38 Alan McKinnon
39 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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