[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[John Drescher]

> I just bought 6 2tb seagate 5900 spin drives for my NAS.  One was doa
> and now another one less than a month later has mounting smart errors
> and says I should soon replace.  That's a 33 percent failure rate.  I
> have 4 750 gb seagate drives that have been running in my other NAS that
> have been running without problems for a year and a half.  I'm thinking
> the larger drives are problematic.
>

For me most of the early failures were with either 500GB or 750GB
drives. Although the dozens of 250GB WDC SATA1 drives we purchased in
2005/2006 have had high failure rate in the last 2 years but those are
5+ years old so that is expected.

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John M. Drescher