On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 18:38 -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:30:26 -0500, Harry Hoffman > <hhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hmm, what arrays are you using? It seems "more than common" with both > > Sun arrays and LSI (or IBM re-badged) arrays. > > > > Anyone else have experiences, good or bad? > > Our company is having a horrific failure rate on the RAIDs in our > Dells. Our service guys say that in the 6 months we've had them at > the customer sites, we've had to replace nearly 30% of them. > If you are having that high a failure rate on drives that are only 6 months old, you should get your vendor to replace the drives with a different model. Look for a model that has a record of long life, not just the one that is the "latest thing". I work for a computer hardware company and sometimes the newest model is not always the most reliable.
