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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
Lupin:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on November 06, 2011, 01:08:06 PM ---I do not like my situation.
With 1TB drives priced at 105 USD, it's just not happening.
Hell, external 750GB costs only 83 USD, but again it's external.
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You're better off compare to mine. I just retired my second to the last Seagate drive (500GB) and now have to move its contents to the rest of the drives:
(click to show/hide)I'm buying two 2TB WD greens tomorrow (~100 USD each) while they're still cheap here.
vuzedome:
I daisy chained and partitioned them.
And I have 3 other 1TBs sitting on my desk as paper weight, damn WDs.
per:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on November 07, 2011, 03:04:32 PM ---I daisy chained and partitioned them.
And I have 3 other 1TBs sitting on my desk as paper weight, damn WDs.
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I don't really need more space right now:
Buuuuut last week three drives (1.5Tb) in my RAID decided it was time to die (they had all run out of spare sectors. Within a few days of each other). The week before another drive died.
Not really optimal timing. I had two spare drives (one real spare, and then my storage drive in my desktop computer), but now I had to buy four new HDD:s just to be somewhat safe (considering that four drives have died within 2 weeks of each other).
At least they died in such a way that the raid survived. I only really have a 2-drive safety factor. When the third died it was just luck that I did not lose it all (one chance in three for a total RAID failure.). :)
So. I now have 4x 1.5Tb 2.9 year old seagate drives, all four with 4097 bad sectors according to S.M.A.R.T laying around. :)
Hm. I just noticed that they are covered by warranty for 26 days more. Then it's not all that bad, I guess. :)
krumm:
--- Quote from: per on November 09, 2011, 06:42:37 PM --- (click to show/hide)
--- Quote from: vuzedome on November 07, 2011, 03:04:32 PM ---I daisy chained and partitioned them.
And I have 3 other 1TBs sitting on my desk as paper weight, damn WDs.
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I don't really need more space right now:
Buuuuut last week three drives (1.5Tb) in my RAID decided it was time to die (they had all run out of spare sectors. Within a few days of each other). The week before another drive died.
Not really optimal timing. I had two spare drives (one real spare, and then my storage drive in my desktop computer), but now I had to buy four new HDD:s just to be somewhat safe (considering that four drives have died within 2 weeks of each other).
At least they died in such a way that the raid survived. I only really have a 2-drive safety factor. When the third died it was just luck that I did not lose it all (one chance in three for a total RAID failure.). :)
So. I now have 4x 1.5Tb 3.1 year old seagate drives, all four with 4097 bad sectors according to S.M.A.R.T laying around. :)
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It sounds like you got all your drives from the same batch. Using drives from the same batch in a raid array kinda defeats the purpose of redundant.
per:
--- Quote from: krumm on November 09, 2011, 07:14:02 PM ---It sounds like you got all your drives from the same batch. Using drives from the same batch in a raid array kinda defeats the purpose of redundant.
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Well, I did order them from two different suppliers. But, yes I guess they just delivered them in-order, so to speak.
The only way to not get them from the same batch that I can see is to either go to an actual physical store with a lot of drives and intentionally try to pick them from different batches. Or order one drive from 20 different stores. The latter will be more expensive.
And I can see how one batch can have similar mechanical issues, but for me it's the media that has broken down at the same time (except for one drive that just stopped responding to commands)
Next time I will probably buy from a few more different stores, now that you gave me the idea. But that is a few years away still, since almost 50% of the diskspace is free after almost three years. And since I am replacing failing 1.5T drives with 2T drives eventually the raid will be bigger (once all five drives in a stripe have failed). :)
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