On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 09:21:50AM -0500, Tom Poe wrote: > DaveT: Sounds like things have changed over the years. I grew up > thinking some hard drives might be prone to problems. Good to hear > quality standards are pretty high, now. > Thanks, Tom I'm afraid it's the other way--standards are pretty uniformly low. The manufacturers have listened to the _hoi polloi_ and given us what they seem to want--ever-bigger and cheaper storage capacity, no particular priority given to reliability. That said, even inadvertently things aren't too bad. I see more failures today than I used to, but it's not epidemic. If you're concerned about reliability, vendors have "RAID certified" drives available; they're usually only a few bucks more than standard OEM off-the-shelf units. -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
