Re: [OT] Samsung Spinpoint HD

["Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

david@xxxxxxx wrote:

>I've had 3 out of 4 fail in under 6 months. The real b*gger was both
>drives in the mirror set died within 4 hours of each other. Hot standby
>? What hot standby ?
>
>
>

Alas, this is surprisingly common in arrays. The trouble is that, if you
build an array, you typically get your disks at the same time (yes, yes,
I know not everyone does - no need to write in.) This means that the
disks typically come from the same batch... which in turn makes them
relatively likely to fail about the same time.

I agree 4 hours is taking the mick - but about a week apart is more
common that you might imagine.


Oh, and perhaps the problem was that you had a "hot standby" when
you
wanted an "adequately cooled standby" :-)

M.