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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
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| 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... -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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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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