Don't think I'd ever mix drive manufacturer's in any RAID configuration, myself. That seems to go against the grain. But maybe my notions on that point are out-dated. Anyone else have opinions on that? -Rob On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:52:52PM -0500, Dean E wrote: > > Unfortunately smartd is emailing me that one is failing the smart self > > test. They are only about a month old :-( > > Read your reviews carefully, some of the "green" 5900rpm drives have a > > high failure rate! I tried to pick the one with the best reviews and > > still seems I may have gotten a bad one. > > I built my file server with three WDC "Green Power" 750GB in RAID5 and > it performs adequately. I am mainly storing my own documents, > articles and books in PDF, my MP3 collection and the raw digital > photos (25MB each). > > After two years of 24/7 service, one of the hard drives died. It took > WD three weeks to scrounge a replacement so in the mean time I replaced > the failing drive with a low-power Samsung. > > Taking into account the huge capacities (chances of failure and effects > of failure are increasing) and low prices (chances of failure > increasing), every computer that I will build from now on will have RAID > (1 for workstations and 6 for servers) and with hard drives from different > manufacturers. Also, for the servers and workstations ECC is a must. > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100814/d1b1f2e5/attachment.htm