Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

When I get a chance next time I'm at work I'll attach a link to the piles
of dead seagates I've been collecting for target practice.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 22:09  <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote:

> Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
> > recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand.
> >
> > I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for
> > their failure rate.
>
> A friend of mine is using Seagate ES drives since many years in his
> servers. He replaces all his drives after the five years warranty time
> is up and as far as I can remember he told me, that he never had a
> failure with all of his drives. He gave me two of his old drives and
> I used them for some years in a RAID-1 array in one of my machines
> till I replaced them with SSDs recently. They are still ok. The only
> bad  thing about these drives is their high noise level. Server drives
> are usually located in a server room and not in an office and so they
> are not designed to be silent. :-)
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>