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by ktulu » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:33 am
hobie16 wrote:Nope. :D: We used Seagates with fiber channel that were inside of a metal cassette. Those suckers were heavy!
I just had to install another array a couple of weeks ago, and drop a server down before the array went in. Let me just say, thank God for innovation! The server is much older, and was much heavier, despite having fewer drives!
It was "easy" to slide in the new array. Of course it is just a small 12 drive unit. We only have 4TB of space on the new server. I'm disappointed.
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by Cranbiz » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:09 pm
hobie16 wrote:Even Seagate is suspect. We bought the most expensive drives that were QA'd up the wazoo to last forever. Meanwhile, some schlub off the street bought a Seagate from Joe Baggadonuts Deli and Data Emporium and saw it fail within a year.
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I see more failures of the others and don't get me started on the retail WD disks :mad:
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by hobie16 » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:09 pm
Cranbiz wrote:True
I see more failures of the others and don't get me started on the retail WD disks :mad:
WD disks are a guarantee to lose everything.
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by GRUMPY PIRATE » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:46 pm
hobie16 wrote:WD disks are a guarantee to lose everything.
Thats why data recovery is charging those people big bucks.
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by hobie16 » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:25 pm
GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Thats why data recovery is charging those people big bucks.
Between WD disks and people who don't do backups, the data recover business is guaranteed to make money.
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by Zazu » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:30 pm
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by GRUMPY PIRATE » Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:04 am
spin right is a good product...
we don't use it because it can touch the data.
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by hobie16 » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:13 am
A couple more words:
RAID array with a parity drive in a system that will do automatic reconstructs.
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by kurtisnelson » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:38 am
hobie16 wrote:A couple more words:
RAID array with a parity drive in a system that will do automatic reconstructs.
A couple more words: A spanned LVM array on top of RAID 5 with two parity drives.
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by delsdad » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:21 pm
Cranbiz wrote:True
I see more failures of the others and don't get me started on the retail WD disks :mad:
Are the WD OEM drives any better? I have 2 towers with them from the factory, both backed up 3 ways from sunday, and no problems touch wood.
