[ale] Do all new large SATA drives suck?

[gcs8]

Every seagate or maxtor drive I have owned has failed on me, the maxtors
where never hard fails. I do shy away from the 1.5tb drives from all the
problems they had in there early days. I had 2 of the 1.5tb seagates for my
drobo before the 2tb drives where out, they both died on me and I moved to
wd greens for it and never had a problem. The 40tb san in my house uses the
samsung spinpoint drives, I don't trust them as far as I can through them
but they are setup to take some hits.
On Mar 2, 2012 11:52 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:

> Geoffrey Myers 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.
>
> People don't ost about things that DO work.
> Jeese, and I've already had my coffee this morning.
>
> >
> >> 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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