Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:45:58 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: hw <hw@adminart.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware recommendation Message-ID: <E0B3C02D-F727-4585-B5C9-0BF9A853B769@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <799dcfe5a11e423c3e67c1fe5d5de6acd8953be8.camel@adminart.net> References: <89298009-9622-4E30-AD03-0A35220DA004@riseup.net> <799dcfe5a11e423c3e67c1fe5d5de6acd8953be8.camel@adminart.net>
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> On 28 Jun 2022, at 20:24, hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote: >=20 >> On Tue, 2022-06-28 at 20:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> =EF=BB=BF >>>> On 28. Jun 2022, at 19:40, infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at> wrote: >>>> =EF=BB=BF>On 28.06.22 19:21, Robert Huff wrote >>>> A disk drive on one of my machines is dying. >>>> I'd like to replace it with a _reliable_ (the old one lasted 10+ >>>> years at moderate loads) consumer-grade SATA II or higher drive >>>> of at >>>> least 500 gbytes. >>>=20 >>> In the light of the link to backblaze, my mail seems quite useless >>> ... I >>=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> no, your reply is _not_ useless. >=20 > Who are you to decide which replies are useless and which aren't? >=20 >> 1. >> All tests and user experiences are useless >=20 > That's a useless reply --- because it's not true. I'm a user with decades of experience. You did not quote the hole sentence. "All tests and user experiences are useless, since a disk drive product line= does change without notice all the times. Exceptions are general pointers s= uch as yours related to CMR vs SMR or HDD vs SSD." Specifications of drive foo from vendor bar change without notice. If each p= erson from 1000 people are using 100 drives foo from vendor bar since 7 year= s without ever running into an issue, it's pointless, since you can' get the= same drive anymore. An exception would be, if the 100000 drives were all bo= ught around a month ago and all of them failed after around 2 days.
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