Home RAID question

[Corey Edwards]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 13:47 -0600, Gregory Hill wrote:
> I'm going to have to assume you work in an IT department or something.
> I haven't RMA'd a hard drive since the big IBM fiasco about 5 years ago
> where they released a ton of faulty drives.  I've had dual WD 74GB
> Raptors in RAID0 for about 2 years with no problems (using an onboard
> promise sata raid controller, then the nvidia sata raid controller after
> that).  I've probably only RMA'd 3 or 4 hard drives in my life.  Come to
> think of it, I haven't had to RMA a hard drive since I started buying
> good power supplies.  Do you use the cheapo ones?  If it came with the
> case, then the answer is almost always yes (though there are a very few
> rare occurrences of cases coming stock with quality power supplies).
> Would be interesting if there's a correlation there.

Yes, I work for an ISP and that's what I was referring to. The disks we
buy /usually/ aren't the el cheapos, not for the servers anyway. We got
one server from Dell that has $500 Maxtor Atlas 10k 146GB SCSI drives.
Boy those things are snappy. Anyway, a month or two after setting it up
one of the drives went completely belly up. It just happens.

Corey

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