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).
<br><br>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.
<br><br>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?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay R. Ashworth
</b> <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:38:29AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
<br>> BTW, I just looked at Seagate's site and there's NO difference in<br>> MTBF between Barracuda serially-attached-SCSI and SATA disks. MTBF<br>> for the Cheetah SAS drives is slightly higher. (They don't make a
<br>> Cheetah SATA drive.) They don't quote MTBF for their desktop-class<br>> drives. But what's really interesting is that *all* of these drives<br>> have the same 5-year warranty. Since they don't quote service life,
<br>> I'm guessing the warranty is probably the best indicator of how long<br>> they really think these drives will last.<br><br>Yeah, but as I note whenever this comes up, duty cycle is an issue:<br>some MythTV users are running their drives in a duty cycle *much*
<br>closer to server than desktop, and those desktop drives may last 5<br>years... but not at 100% duty 24/7.<br><br>The SCSI drives will; I've done it.<br><br>Cheers,<br>-- jra<br>--<br>Jay R. Ashworth Baylink
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