[mythtv-users] OT: Predicted hard drive failure; replacement consideration

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Apr 18 16:27, Jay Ashworth (jra at baylink.com) wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> 
> > At work I am having seriously high failure rates with Seagate drives
> > for the last 3+ years.

> I, too, have, sadly, had much bad luck with Seagates, from 500GB up to 2TB,

On the other hand, in the past four years I've had several Western
Digital disks fail (four out of eleven!) but all Seagates bought during
the same time (ten) are still going strong, ditto Samsungs (6)
and Hitachis (4). Not enough to be statistically significant, of course,
could've been just bad luck with the WDs.

> failing in much less than the expected life, and all, uniformly, in a very odd
> way which I've mentioned before here:
> 
> once you hit a block in the Red Zone, the drive adapter goes completely off
> line, never to return until you power-cycle the drive,

I've no idea what "Red Zone" means here.

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Tapani Tarvainen