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On 26/06/2014 05:54, 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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My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with |
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was data center setups where |
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- the power has never gone off for 6 years |
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- the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after year |
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- the servers were the nice big ones Dell makes with awesome cooling |
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- the data center feels like a fridge and the ambient temp never varies |
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more than 1 deg |
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- the server power supplies are seriously high grade, the 5V and 12V out |
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of them are solid and do not fluctuate at all |
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Add all this up and it's an almost perfect environment for drives to |
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last a long time. You don't have that, not even close. |
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I have only 1 little bit of anecdotal data: |
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my nas at home has 4 x 3T WD Green drives in it, going on almost 2 years |
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now. My kids hammer the blazes out of that thing, and ZFS scrubs keep it |
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real busy when the kids don't. And those drives just keep on turning and |
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turning and turning, I didn't do anything special. I put it down to |
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statistics - no-one makes bad drives (or cars) these days and I haven't |
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pulled the unlucky card yet. I dunno, go figure |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |