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Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine

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On 03/19/2016 09:40 AM, Peter Chant wrote:

> I've had failures in the past and this is the first time I've spotted
> one on the way out.
>

If I catch a read/ write error right away, I can usually save all the 
data. I had one horrible experience though:

I was working on a machine performing a data recovery on one drive and 
somewhere along the line, one of the working drives quit entirely. It 
was not seen in the BIOS.

I broke out in a cold sweat. How was I going to tell the guy that I now 
made things worse?


I pulled the drive out of the machine and went over the circuit board 
with a good magnifying glass. One SMT capacitor was slightly raised on 
one side due to an evidently poor solder joint. It was late at night and 
I had enough sense to put off the repair until the next morning.
I breathed a huge sigh of relief when the drive functioned again.

I then gave the guy a stern lecture about backing everything up to at 
least two separate hard drives and told him I'd never do anything for 
him again unless he did so.








> I did have a scsi drive once (a long while back) which was rock solid
> 24/7 for about 7 years.  Only replaced it as its capacity ended up being
> ridiculously small.  However, a sample of 1 is hardly meaningful.
>

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Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-03-18 18:27 +0000
  Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-18 14:03 -0500
    Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-03-19 10:05 +0000
      Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-19 07:02 -0500
        Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-03-19 14:40 +0000
          Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-19 12:19 -0500
          Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-03-19 22:19 +0000
            Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-20 03:35 +0000
              Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> - 2016-03-20 09:31 -0400
            Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Dave <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2016-03-24 19:47 -0700
              Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-25 05:26 -0500
  Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-03-18 19:39 +0000

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