<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 11-02-22 02:41 PM, John Drescher wrote:<br>
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> Most current SATA drives on the market are flawed. I the expectation<br>
> is 1% to 7% of all your drives will fail each year.<br>
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</div>Does this number have any scientific study behind it or is it just your<br>
own finding?<br>
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Because if it's just your own finding then it could be entirely<br>
environmental and nothing to do with drive quality.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Not to mention that consumer-grade HDDs and server-grade HDDs are different animals (although I guess I don't know what you're running). We go through somewhere between 2 and 4 hard drives per week at my work out of I don't know, 2000 drives. And that's in a temperature / humidity / power controlled data center. <br>
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