[mythtv-users] OT: Seagate to reduce warranties on consumer drives to 3 years from 2009

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 22:18:01 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM,  <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ah, I always just lived by the "cheaper" rule. Decide what features I
>> want, buy the cheapest drive. I've since been vindicated, Google's
>> extensive hard drive report has shown no statistical difference
>> amongst manufacturers and models (obviously outside issues like the
>> "deathstar" and the current Seagate 1.5TB model debacle). As such one
>> will currently find a mix of Samsung, Seagate, Maxtor, WD and Toshiba
>> drives in my 3 Myth computers, my laptop and my two external drives. I
>> also currently have 8 drives (1xSeagate, 1xToshiba, 4xMaxtor, 2xWD)
>> well out of their warranty period that all are running with no errors,
>> weird noises, etc. That I believe is due to them running in a very
>> well ventilated case with a quality power supply on UPS and a little
>> bit of luck.
>
> Actually Google's study did say that failure rates were highly correlated
> with the model and manufacturer. Unfortunately for us, they didn't name any
> specific manufacturers or models in their report. From the report:
>
> "Failure rates are known to be highly correlated with drive
> models, manufacturers and vintages [18]. Our results do
> not contradict this fact. For example, Figure 2 changes
> significantly when we normalize failure rates per each
> drive model. Most age-related results are impacted by
> drive vintages. However, in this paper, we do not show a
> breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage
> due to the proprietary nature of these data."
>
> The interesting thing from the report was that higher temperatures and heavy
> usage didn't seem to correlate with a higher failure rates regardless of
> manufacturer. The report is short and easy to read or just skim over if
> anybody wants to look more closely:
> http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf.

hrmm, the report I read from them talked about failures being more
related to environment than manufacturer/model. I wonder if they since
updated their report?


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