[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Josh White]

Does anyone want to take bets on how long the 120gig IDE Segate harddrive I
record on will last?  It records just about all the time (3 tuners) and I
generally transcode everything (so that adds another 50% of data written to
the disk)  In general, it sits about half full, but most things are deleted
after 1 week. It has spent the last 5 years doing next to nothing (simply
storing my music collection that I may access on average 1 hour/day).

To further ensure its failure, I've never had a hard drive fail.  Ever.
Since 1991 or so when I got my first 286.  This is the first thing I've done
with a computer that I would call more than minimal duty cycle, so I'm sure
it will fail at some point.

I bet I'll see at least 1 year of use as my sole MythTV recordings drive.
What does the rest of the community think?

On 10/18/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:38:29AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > BTW, I just looked at Seagate's site and there's NO difference in
> > MTBF between Barracuda serially-attached-SCSI and SATA disks.  MTBF
> > for the Cheetah SAS drives is slightly higher.  (They don't make a
> > Cheetah SATA drive.)  They don't quote MTBF for their desktop-class
> > drives.  But what's really interesting is that *all* of these drives
> > have the same 5-year warranty.  Since they don't quote service life,
> > I'm guessing the warranty is probably the best indicator of how long
> > they really think these drives will last.
>
> Yeah, but as I note whenever this comes up, duty cycle is an issue:
> some MythTV users are running their drives in a duty cycle *much*
> closer to server than desktop, and those desktop drives may last 5
> years... but not at 100% duty 24/7.
>
> The SCSI drives will; I've done it.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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