".....a SATA drive in the 1 TB size that will last longer than 30
seconds and costs less than a fortune? "
I share your pain...
Chris
On 18/07/2012, Dr A. J. Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a pair of Samsung Spinpoint 0.5 TB drives in a mirrored pair in my
> home
> server. One of them is now producing:
>
> smartd[..]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 38 Currently unreadable (pending)
> sectors
>
> warnings. The SMART health of the drive is good, but I understand that this
>
> means next time these sectors are written to it will be remapped to spare
> sectors.
>
> This isn't fatal as long as the rate of growth remains low but I gather now
> is
> a good time to get a new drive. I have a spare low mileage Spinpoint of the
>
> same size I can swap into the array but I would like to replace the spare
> with
> something else.
>
> BTW, I have good backups of my data...!
>
> Any suggestions for a SATA drive in the 1 TB size that will last longer than
>
> 30 seconds and costs less than a fortune? Since all the smaller drive firms
>
> got gobbled up I've only got Seagate and Western Digital to choose from as
> far
> as I can tell.
>
> Other than Novatech any other local firms to look at to buy disks from?
>
> --
> Adam Trickett
> Overton, HANTS, UK
>
> Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment.
> -- Jean Baudrillard
>
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