[Gllug] Source for quality 24/7-duty cycle SATA drives?
Nix
nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Apr 19 05:35:42 UTC 2006
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Mike Brodbelt mused:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:10 +0100, Nix wrote:
>
>> but nonetheless I have managed to avoid losing any
>> of my data since, oh, 1987. Despite having no backup media due to lack
>> of money for ten years...)
>
> Shhhhhh. They're out there you know, just listening for things like
> that...... Now go sacrifice another goat :-)
I lost two disks in a one week period in Feb. Now I use RAID-5 ;)
(But I still lost no data. The disks died slowly enough that I could
push their contents onto NBDs on other machines and run in that
decidedly wobbly state until I could get new disks.)
--
`On a scale of 1-10, X's "brokenness rating" is 1.1, but that's only
because bringing Windows into the picture rescaled "brokenness" by
a factor of 10.' --- Peter da Silva
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