3TB Harddisk sale

[William Muriithi]

Mike,
> I'm duty-bound to weigh in at this point. My external RAID-1 with two
> Seagate 500 Barracudas failed recently. RAID box is fine, both drives
> failed at the same time. One drive was all errors, to the point of
> falling off the bus, and the other was a spinning brick.

I have seen this happen twice in my career.  RAID 1 failing and I believe
this shouldn't be the case. Problem is most vendor set up RAID systems from
the same hard disk vendors and the same manufacturing batch.

I am looking at you Dell. They sell RAID 10 systems with hard disk whose
serial number are so close you can guess the serial number of the last
drive after seeing the first drive.

Of course they end up failing at the same time to my surprise :(

William


>
> Spinning brick did not respond to firmware monitor (RS-232 TTL
> interface) access, so I had a company in BC (plug: the nice folks at
> http://www.onepcbsolution.com) send me replacement drive electronics
> with my transplanted PROM. $50 instead of close to $1k for a
> professional recovery (last I looked). Thankfully I was finally able
> to recover data from spinning brick.
>
> Needles [sic] to say I'm not going anywhere near Seagate for some
> time. No matter how good a deal. Lennart might be a bit quick with his
> reviews sometimes ( ;-) but I'm right with him on this one!
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
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