Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 06:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have
>>
> become
>
>> unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties
>>
> them
>
>> beyond a year now.
>>
>>
>>
> Really? All of my Seagate drives that I purchase here in Taiwan have
> 3
> year warranties.
>
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actually some of the WD and Seagate drives have up to a 5 year warranty
but you have to be careful which you buy (I think the Caviar and
Barracuda respectively).
Did I read your previous message incorrectly? I thought you were saying
that "none of the manufacturer's warranties them beyond a year now."
And now you seem to be saying that you can get 3 and 5 year warranties
on WD and Seagate drives.
You've confused me.
The simple truth is as they have increased densities for higher
amounts
of storage, the error rates have remained constant and they are more
prone to failure.
Are you making any differentiation between badspot failures and total
drive failure?
Though I have stopped using RAID-5, this link is pretty sobering...
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/383...
and there are varying grades of SATA drives being sold so there is a
need to be cautious.
I think the idea of "varying grades" extends well beyond SATA drives.
:-)
Caveat emptor.
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