PATA hard disks, anyone?

[dwight]

I recall at one company we used Micropolous ( SP? ) drives. We had almost 100% failure in less than 6 months. It did our company a lot of damage.

Dwight


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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 5:27:32 PM
To: Ali via cctalk
Subject: Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?


> 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