Rick Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 12:21 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Care to elaborate on that last statement? Are you talking about the disks
themselves or the IDE interface or ???? If "IDE" disks are unreliable then
what disks are reliable?
The disks themselves. I've yet to meet a reliable disk, ever year or two
one dies on me.
I think the real question is, how many disks do you have?
Out of a hundred say one dead every year would not be too bad. This
Western Digital ide is 6 years old.
Do you leave them spinning all the time or spin them up and down?
We don't have issues like that, but we never shut down our servers
except when we must perform maintenance. It's the spinup-spindown-
spinup cycles that kill the bearings (heat up, cool down, heat up
again).
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