Comment 3 drive failures in 6 months (Score 1) 695
I've had three disks fail on me so far this year. Two 45GB and one 30GB.
Both 45GB's developed bad sectors, which the RAID subsystem noticed and kicked them out of the mirror. The first one was in March right after I got the pair, the second in August.
The 30GB was different however. Something mechanical has failed in it and the BIOS doesn't see it anymore. It makes rather horrible sounding noises. It was, unfortunately, unmirrored and not backed up due to an earlier failure of my SCSI card, so no DAT or CD-R backups recently. I had just acquired a new card and was going to backup the system that afternoon, when blammo, it died. Total suckfest. The drive was 8 months old.
That's my experience. The 60GXP's I have (40GB and 60GB) seem fine so far.
Both 45GB's developed bad sectors, which the RAID subsystem noticed and kicked them out of the mirror. The first one was in March right after I got the pair, the second in August.
The 30GB was different however. Something mechanical has failed in it and the BIOS doesn't see it anymore. It makes rather horrible sounding noises. It was, unfortunately, unmirrored and not backed up due to an earlier failure of my SCSI card, so no DAT or CD-R backups recently. I had just acquired a new card and was going to backup the system that afternoon, when blammo, it died. Total suckfest. The drive was 8 months old.
That's my experience. The 60GXP's I have (40GB and 60GB) seem fine so far.
