[ale] Do all new large SATA drives suck?

[gcs8]

I have 20 2tb drives all spinning in one box, there pretty happy, hard
drives are sortof luck of the drawl, out of the 20 I bought only one was
bad and iit was bad out of the box. Just buy some sas drives and don't
think about it dieing.
On Mar 2, 2012 11:34 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:

> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >   Consider that the vast majority of people buy and use those drives
> > without incident and never think to put a review saying so on any one
> > particular vendor site.
>
> My thinking as well.  People don't post about things that don't work.
>
> >
> > On 3/2/12 11:18 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> >> I've gone ahead and ordered an HP core i3 system to be our next Centos
> >> home/office server.
> >>
> >> It's  got a 1.5TB drive; normally on these off-lease units I'd buy two
> >> brand new drives and mirror them.  Or that's what we've done with the
> >> last 3 linux servers.     All of which are still technically
> >> functioning since Fedora core 1.
> >>
> >> This drive is likely about a year old, so I'm thinking I'll just buy a
> >> new 1.5TB drive and install Centos to mirror the primary.
> >>
> >> When I look at the crop of 1 - 1.5TB drives on TigerDirect and read
> >> the reviews, they seem to be uniformly terrible - DOA,  failed after 3
> >> weeks, replacement failed after a week, etc.  Seagate seems to be the
> >> worst, although WD not too far behind.
> >>
> >> Ummm, isn't one of the primary selling features of a disk drive that
> >> it's not supposed to blow up and take down all your data with it?
> >> Has there been a massive quality slip in the last couple years since I
> >> last bought drives?    Seriously -  I can lose a power supply, a
> >> motherboard, a display - you name it, and once I replace it I can
> >> expect to still have the data.    Yes, I should do backups, and I do,
> >> and yes, I should mirror the drives, and I do.    I should do SMARTD
> >> monitoring and I do.  But isn't this like selling tires that tend to
> >> shred randomly?    Isn't not blowing up catastrophically with no
> >> warning beforehand a basic selling point for disk drives?    What's
> >> the point of mirroring if the odds are good that both drives will fail
> >> completely the same week?   What's the point of SMARTD monitoring if
> >> the darn drive quits without warning?
> >>
> >> Does anybody make a decent drive in that size range?
> >>
> >> I'm thinking that not even considering economy,  my old theory of
> >> buying a pair of new identical drives may not be wise anymore, and
> >> sticking with one drive that has lasted over a year and one new drive
> >> is a better plan.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Neal
> >>
> >>
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