[geeks] Quiet SCSI drives

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 @ 15:24 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:42:43PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > I think I'll stick with Fujitsu or Seagate, thanks very much.
> 
> Unless I was in a time pinch, I've bought nothing but Hitachi/IBM
> drives for all of my systems for the past couple of years.
> 
> They *invented* the hard drive, after all. 8-)

Two of the drives I'm retiring are 5 year old Ultrastars.  One died a
few weeks ago after 5 years.  It started vibrating badly, so I just took
it out of service.

The other two are noisy now.  That started happening about two years
ago, and they still return a status of OK.

One interesting thing: every Ultrastar drive I have had returns
"impending spindle failure" almost from day one.  I don't know if they
violate the SMART spec, or the SMART software is at fault.

Never get any failures until years later, but it always worries me.

In fact, when the Ultrastar I replaced started vibrating badly, there
were still no error codes at all.

Western Digital seems to have the best SMART codes, which is usually a
good thing... :)



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