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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>>> My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. |
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>>> Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same |
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>>> with bikes[2]. |
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>>> A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a product range is less than |
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>>> perfect, but even that is quite rare and most stuff ups can be fixed |
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>>> with new firmware. So it's all good. |
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>> That's my thoughts too. It doesn't matter what brand you go with, they |
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>> all have some sort of failure at some point. They are not built to last |
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>> forever and there is always the random failure, even when a week old. |
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>> It's usually the loss of important data and not having a backup that |
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>> makes it sooooo bad. I'm not real picky on brand as long as it is a |
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>> company I have heard of. |
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> One thing to keep in mind is statistics. For a single drive by itself |
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> it hardly matters anymore what you buy. You cannot predict the |
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> failure. However if you buy multiple identical drives at the same time |
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> then most likely you will either get all good drives or (possibly) a |
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> bunch of drives that suffer from similar defects and all start failing |
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> at the same point in their life cycle. For RAID arrays it's |
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> measurably best to buy drives that come from different manufacturing |
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> lots, better from different factories, and maybe even from different |
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> companies. Then, if a drive fails, assuming the failure is really the |
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> fault of the drive and not some local issue like power sources or ESD |
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> events, etc., it's less likely other drives in the box will fail at |
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> the same time. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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You make a good point too. I had a headlight to go out on my car once |
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long ago. I, not thinking, replaced them both since the new ones were |
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brighter. Guess what, when one of the bulbs blew out, the other was out |
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VERY soon after. Now, I replace them but NOT at the same time. Keep in |
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mind, just like a hard drive, when one headlight is on, so is the other |
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one. When we turn our computers on, all the drives spin up together so |
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they are basically all getting the same wear and tear effect. |
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I don't use RAID, except to kill bugs, but that is good advice. People |
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who do use RAID would be wise to use it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |