[BlueOnyx:13741] Re: old raq550 question

[Stephanie Sullivan]

I wouldn't wait for hard failures. Waiting is like the different between a
slap on the cheek and a two-by-four to the head. :-) You choose :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George F. Nemeyer [mailto:tigerwolf at tigerden.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:01 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:13740] Re: old raq550 question
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Michael Stauber wrote:
> 
> > Device Model:     	ST380021A
> > Power_On_Hours: 	81257
> > Power_Cycle_Count: 	  135
> 
> > Raw_Read_Error_Rate:	143743403
> > Seek_Error_Rate:	403284815
> > Hardware_ECC_Recovered:	143743403
> 
> > My usual advice would be to replace both disks. But there you'll
> > immediately have the problem that those LBA24 ATA drives are hard
> to get
> > these days. You must use IDE drives which have no more than 137GB
> at the
> > most.
> 
> They're ancient, yeah.. but note that the ECC fixed *all* the soft
> errors...just doing it's job.
> 
> HDA is reporting the sort of errors I'd worry about, but since the
> box is
> a non-critcal but RAID application, I'd be tempted to let the good
> HDC one
> go on and see just how long it *does* last since it's not reporting
> any
> hard errors.
> 
> The low power cycle count is one thing I'd attribute to the longevity
> of
> the drives...nice stable temperature and power conditions, with a
> very
> small number of head 'landings'.  Lots of on-off cycles is punishing
> to a
> drive.
> 
> I've got a drive in one old Sun machine that's been going for over 15
> years now...and for the last 5 it's main spindle bearings sound like
> a
> threshing machine...but it's still going!  I'm going to let it run
> until
> it dies...or I do.  I hope it goes first!
> 
> =^_^=  Tigerwolf
> 
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