Re: recovering after a /dev/sda failure on raid1

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:35:47PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

The Fujitsu disks have a track record of good reliability.
The IDE disk you mention were discontinued a year ago.
In our experiences Fujitsu disks have as low a failure rate as can be found.
Drives we have used with higher failure rates (SCSI) came from IBM and 
Seagate.
The best failure rate we have seen is from Hitachi.
In the case of Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Seagate the rates are very close.
Quantum/Maxtor SCSI are a bit worse.
IBM are substantially worse.
This is based on our DOA and in service SCSI disk failures over the past 
year.

Thanks for sharing your experience with these brands. It confirms that
Fujitsu remains a good choice. I am in the process of returning the
failed disk and will ask for a full audit of the failure, which I will
summarize to this list when I get it.

Cheers,

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