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Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 06/25/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports |
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>> that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when |
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>> run 24x7. |
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> Anecdotal, but... |
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> In 2008 I bought four 24x7 drives (500GB) and eight regular drives to be |
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> used in raid. Out of the eight regular drives, six failed before 4 years |
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> was up. |
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> All of the 24x7 drives are still in use (although I don't remember which |
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> machine(s) they're in now), six years later. |
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> All Seagate. |
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> I initially did do warranty replacement on the failed drives (all drives |
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> had 5 year warranty back then), and out of the six replacements, four |
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> failed a little over three months in. |
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> At that point I went and bought a real battery backed raid card |
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> (computer still has a UPS) with WD enterprise drives and no hiccups of |
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> any kind in about two years. And disk performance is way, way up. |
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> Dan |
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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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I realize that any brand of drive will break eventually. That's one |
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reason I don't hold the one failure I have had against WD. I got a lot |
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of use out of that drive and it did let me know it was going to die, |
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like real soon. I'm going to duck now. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |