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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:53:19 +1100 (EST)
From:      Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412182049100.17965@dave.horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net> <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> Seems unlikely that faulty server software could cause a disk failure.
> One possibility is that your power supply is a but stressed and the
> supply rails are out of tolerance.  The other possibility is that the
> drives are overheating.  Higher density drives will be more sensitive
> to both heat and dirty power.

A third possibility is that all disks came from the same batch (and I've 
been bitten by that).  After all, there's a reason why 250Gb can be 
squeezed into such a piddly package...

-- Dave



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