[Nottingham] Disc failure in a RAID 1 array

[Michael Simms]

As I currently have 40 dead discs sitting on my shelf of shame, I know 
something of bad discs.

I avoid WD and Seagate like the plague.

Backblaze has always shown one thing consistently. HGST discs are more 
reliable than any others. Samsungs used to be more reliable, but they 
stopped making spinning rust a few years ago.

I now have around 90TB of disc in use, and 80TB of it is HGST. I've had 
one failure of HGST so far, which is way lower than the rates I got with 
WD or Seagate.

Sure you can save money on discs, but what's your data worth?

Michael

On 2018-09-26 22:30, Jason Irwin via Nottingham wrote:
> All SMART tests passed, drive claims to be perfectly healthy with no
> failures and the RAID is rebuilding.
> Still, too close for comfort and a reminder to set up some kind of
> monitoring/alert thing so I get informed.
> 
> Questions about new drives still stand and looking at the Q1 2018 from
> Back Blaze, seems Seagate have upped their game:
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/
> 
> So maybe a 4TB IronWolf for ~£110 isn't so bad. Maybe it's resistant
> to Husky hair?
> 
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