From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 06:58:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F7316A4D1 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBC943D3F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id DDD615311; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:58:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 303195310; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:58:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 1356E33CA6; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:58:16 +0100 (CET) To: kuku@www.kukulies.org References: <20040311153709.AD00216A4D6@hub.freebsd.org> <20040311174030.GB8190@tikitechnologies.com> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:58:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040311174030.GB8190@tikitechnologies.com> (Clifton Royston's message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:40:30 -1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: off topic - disk crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:58:23 -0000 Clifton Royston writes: > > Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar > > IDE disk crashed. > This specific line of drives is infamous for a failure rate that's at > least a full order of magnitude above the industry average for ATA > drives. Google a bit for it. Not the entire DeskStar line, just the 75GXP series. I still have several 16Gs and at least one 60GXP that have never given me any trouble, and they were fast and silent for their time, head and shoulders ahead of the competition. These days I mostly buy WD... > > The disk boots into FreeBSD but already at power on time the disk does > > seek retries or some recalibration noise. Also known as the "click of death"... DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no