PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Chuck Guzis]

> Interesting but consistent with my informal observations. My Hitachi
> enterprise class 4gb hdd are still going strong after multiple power
> outages and almost 5 years of 24x7 on time. Granted not much reading
> and writing occurs but the fact that they are spinning is probably
> the biggest wear and tear on them. Helium drives? Only if you have
> the money to replace them yearly and have a RAID 1 set of a RAID 6
> volume....
I took a look at my 1TB drive stash.  They're branded as Toshiba, which,
I believe are really Hitachi.  So maybe not so bad.

But on those charts, the 3TB Seagate really shows an astonishing failure
rate...

--Chuck