[SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?

From: Carlos F Lange (carlos.lange_at_ualberta.ca)
Date: 11/03/05

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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:56:25 -0700

    Hi,

    Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university
    to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard
    disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the
    failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related
    and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2),
    and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and
    on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular
    brand or type.

    But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of
    hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department
    running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash
    while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple
    of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in
    the same period, it is starting to look bad. :(

    I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher
    number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July,
    where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them
    it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here,
    but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common
    among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months.
    Am I seeing things, or what?

    Carlos 

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