<p dir="ltr">Most of my older stuff was sata, then enterprise sata. My sas stuff survived a near meltdowns off 155°F ambient air for well over an hour.</p>
<p dir="ltr">SAS drives are awesome.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 6, 2015 8:33 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 06/06/2015 07:59 PM, Sam Rakowski wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I've purchased a new hard drive(magnetic) to replace an old one that has<br>
> some bad sectors on it. I haven't ever bought a new hard drive; most of my<br>
> hard drives come used or part of a new device.<br>
><br>
> I'm just interested in hearing what you all run through when you receive a<br>
> new hard drive. Zero it? Run badblocks? All or none of the above?<br>
><br>
<br>
I plug it in and use it, but setup backups immediately. I've had a few drives<br>
die in the first week.<br>
<br>
Then a few 1TB+ seagates died just after the warranty ended. Older, smaller,<br>
seagates were good drives - still have a few 320G spinning - almost 8 yrs now -<br>
only used as portable, backup, storage now. Took them out of "production use" in<br>
yr 6.<br>
<br>
Of course, there is a huge quality difference between SAS drives and the crap<br>
consumers are sold. I suspect Jim was installing SAS into those arrays.<br>
<br>
These days, I buy 2 drives at a time - 1 for primary, the other for backups.<br>
Just makes life easier.<br>
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