Journal tomhudson's Journal: Seagate sux ... 8
Drive #1
Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 110031586
Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 068 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 6438669
Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 091 057 000 Old_age Always - 111727959
Drive #2
Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 095 006 Pre-fail Always - 100950254
Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 068 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 6753816
Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 066 063 000 Old_age Always - 163238318
5 year warranty my a**
And one of them squeaks like a mouse every few hours. I don't know how many hours I've wasted over the last 10 days trying to get these things to work before I ran smartctl -a. Oh wait, yes I do
Next drives I'm checking as soon as they go in the box.
Well, more time lost at work dealing with this crap
yet (Score:1)
all drives i've ever owned have run 24/7 for years with few issues.
i've had one of every brand take a dump on me.
But it looks like you got enough fail for a few years.
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Maybe its the air here or something ... most drives start acting wonky a week after the warranty period (if they make it that far), but I've had at least a half-dozen that were DOA, including one in a new computer that *gasp* I didn't build ... actually paid the store to build it. (never doing THAT again if I can avoid it - what an exercise in futility).
I'd say 1/4 die in warranty, 1/4 die just outside of warranty, and most of the rest get 1 year extra. The drive in this machine is past its' "best before
Neither here nor there... (Score:2)
Meh. (Score:2)
I used to be a Deskstar fan, back when they were still IBM, but when Hitachi bought 'em out...Well, they call 'em "Deathstars" for a reason.
Did a lot of work with SCSI drives, before SATAII...They were pretty damn reliable. They generally lasted until the mean point of failure, and then they generally died within a week. I had a 24 disk array where all the disks had been bought at the same time (not b
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We had a similar situation at work with a 6-disk RAID ... one drive died, and they figured "so what, it'll be okay for a while." Hey, if you KNOW one's gone, another one is probably ready to croak.
It would probably be a good idea to have a low-priority process looking at ALL the data on all the drives in a RAID on a regular basis, so that you get warnings even on data you wouldn't normally read ...
Seagate warranty (Score:2)
Yep. 5 year warranty. Every vendor has drives that fail before the warranty expires. But Seagate have enough confidence in their drive quality to offer a 5 year warranty as opposed to the 1 year or 3 years that other vendors are offering. If the drives frequently failed before that, it would be economically unviable for them to offer such a warranty. And FWIW, the warranty is pretty good, and easy to make use of. Just type the serial number into their web site, get a return code in e
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I'm a bit peeved at them. There is NO way I'm paying to ship these drives, even one way. These drives were defective before they left the factory, and should never have been shipped. The error count is from the low-level factory format, not from my ext3 format. Its only luck that I hadn't put the drives in in a different order, and also that I decided to check the RAID's health, or I wouldn't have known for a while, since the other drive is still bootable.
At 16k sectors, I'm out almost 20 gigs of space f