[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:22:47PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > The SCSI drives will; I've done it.
> 
> Fair enough, but I don't think valid anymore to assume SCSI = "server  
> class" and non-SCSI = "desktop class."  The Seagate Barracudas have a  
> 24x7 duty cycle, whether they're SAS or SATA.

Well, that's what we use, and we had one decide, about a year into it's
duty, maybe 2 tops, that if you tried to read a certain range of
sectors, *it would make the IDE controller drop off line, until
powercycle*.

Two different motherboards, three different operating systems.  (Linux,
Win2K, Spinrite 6.)  Identical results.

And of course, the partition under that is part of an LVM group.

Cheers,
-- jra
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