Corrupted files

[Grozdan]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac at intellique.com> wrote:
> Le Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:43:08 -0500
> Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer at mygrande.net> écrivait:
>
>>       None of the failed drives were WD green.  All three and the
>> previous four were Seagate.  I realize that is not a large
>> statistical sample.
>>
>
> If you're interested in large statistical samples, on a grand total of
> 4000 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ES2, I had to replace 2100 of them over the
> course of 3 years. I still have a couple of hundred of these
> unfortunate pieces of crap in service, and they still represent the
> vast majority of unexpected RAID malfunctions, urgent replacements,
> late night calls and other "interesting side activities".
>
> I wouldn't buy anything labeled Seagate nowadays. Their drives have
> been the baddest train wreck since the dreaded 9 GB Micropolis back in
> 1994 (or was it 1995?).

Funny, because our server (105 of them) all run on Seagate drives a
few years now and I have yet to see one fail or cause other problems.
But then again, we use Constellation disks, not Barracuda's. At home I
also use both Barracuda's and Constellation ones and also have yet to
see a problem with them.

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