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

[jedi]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:17:26PM +0800, James Linder wrote:
> 
> On 20/04/2012, at 8:00 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
> >>> I, too, have, sadly, had much bad luck with Seagates, from 500GB up to
> >>> 2TB,
> >>> failing in much less than the expected life
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I had a 100% failure rate for Seagate 750G drives. Two failed
> >> simultaneously and trashed my RAID. All replaced under warranty.
> >> --
> >> Ray Lischner
> >> 
> >> 
> > Yep I've had a 750GB Seagate drive replaced twice and a 500GB drive
> > replaced once but its replacement has yet to be used
> 
> Seagate's "ATA more than just an interface" says that if you have more than 1 disc in a box it WILL fail and lo and behold over the years disc failure is almost legendry.
> The rational rebels against such nonsense but stories like the above persist (and their article explains WHY and distinguishes between enterprise, SCSI and consumer disks)

    The only Seagate drives of mine that have actually failed were completely 
unmonitored disks used for myth recordings. The rest I have taken out of service
pre-emptively based on values reported by smartctl.