Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?

From: Dana J. Laude (dlaude_at_usadig.com)
Date: 11/04/05

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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:16:32 -0700

    On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:42, Sid Boyce wrote:

    <snip>
    > Most SuSE/Mandriva/gentoo (I have them all) installs are reiserfs
    > by default, so guess under what conditions failures occur. I have
    > had a number of run-arounds with HD failures, some were due to
    > bad IDE controllers so the disks were reclaimed after swapping
    > out the motherboard and reformatting the drives, all others, 2 in
    > about 2 years have been genuine HD failures.
    > My bet is that if you install Fedora core which is ext3, you'd
    > have the same problems. I shot down reiserfs as the cause the
    > last time the issue was raised on the grounds that if reiserfs
    > was that bad, the kernel mailing list would be full of
    > complaints, customers would be frothing at the mouth and
    > RedHat/Fedora/Windows would be replacing the other distros in
    > short order.
    > Regards
    > Sid.

    I agree. Reiser and Ext3 formats are not the problem.
    Another thing that can be a serious problem is cooling
    on the hard drives, or the system in general.

    Being involved in PC hardware for 2 decades I can tell you that ALL
    manufactures have problems. I've had Linksys network cards fail
    in batches of 30+, (30 outta 50) and I've seen the same from hard
    drives from WD, SG, IBM, Maxtor, etc. IBM's drives bit me in the
    *ss , 4 failed in 7 months..., not happy.

    The IBM bug bit me while running Debian unstable (ha!) about 14
    months ago. I used both Reiser and ext3, but it just came back
    to bad hardware.

    Almost *all* of these failures are related to a certain serial # or
    manufaturing date / batch.

    As a FYI, just cause it's new doesn't mean it isn't DOA. ;)

    Dana 

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