From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 09:53:27 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 8443B16A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:53:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA3443D3F for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:53:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id iBI9rKP17974 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:53:23 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:53:19 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: References: <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net> <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ? 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: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:53:27 -0000 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