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Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine

From Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine
Date 2016-03-20 03:35 +0000
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On 2016-03-19, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 14:40:00 +0000, Peter Chant wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Back in august 1996 I installed Slackware 3.1 on a 486 with an IDE drive. 
> The purpose of that machine was to be an NFS file server and lpd printer 
> server for a printer connected to its parallell port. I no longer mount 
> its NFS exported drive, but I still use it as my printer server. It has 
> been running 24/7 for almost 20 years now and the same IDE drive is still 
> running fine. I don't have any UPS so the uptime isn't so impressive, it 
> reboots almost every year during the summers when there are thunderstorms.
>
> Even if this is only yet another sample of 1 anectdote I still would say 
> that most HDs running 24/7 get retired because of obsolete capacity 
> rather than HDD failures.

I can add a few more data points - not too many, because the drives last
so damned long.  I'm a believer in 24/7 operation - fewer power surges,
fewer chances for stiction, less thermal cycling...

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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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