[aklug] Re: [aklug]Re: hard drive prefeerence

> -----Original Message-----

>=20
> I used to like Seagate due to the 5yr warantee, but I recently had to
> RMA a few and their customer service sucks. It took about a month to
> get new drives back.
>=20
> Drives fail so often and are so cheap now you might as well=20
> run RAID or
> ZFS + SMARTD.

My laptop has one each of Seagate Momentus 5400.2 and a Fujitsu MHV
series.

The Seagate has been rolling along just fine.

The Fujitsu doesn't seem to play nice with smartd. Smartd logs temp
information for the Seagate, but it doesn't for the Fujitsu no matter
what I do to cajole it with config files. However when I query the
Fujitsu with smartctl, the information is right there.

Every couple of months the Fujitsu decides it likes to "click" every 30
seconds or so. Each click increments the multi-zone error rate by two.

I bought another Seagate to transition the Fujitsu out. :)
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Received on Wed Nov 12 10:23:28 2008