This is really off the subject by my experience is that
the reliability of data recorded on hard disks is far
better than on floppy disks, tapes, CDs or DVDs.
I have used backup disks in USB cases for years and
have yet to encounter any failures. On the other hand
I have seen many failures with all the other media.
Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3? ...Carlos F Lange wrote: ... > disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. ... SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common ... so guess under what conditions failures occur. ... (SuSE)
Re: Too much hard drives failing ...ATA error count increased from 11605 to 11610 ... But the disks are really broken. ... What kind of failures are these? ... Can this anyhow be related with reiserfs?... (Fedora)
Re: Bad Power Supply? ... To add, I had a number of Samsung hd's that kept on failing, failure was ... Samsung rma'd the disks but failures ... Changed the pwr supply, failures went away. ... JamesJ - no useful information means no one could provide anything ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea ... Does it matter that google's recent report on disk failures indicated ... since something like 70% of disks were still working a year after the ... than for my personal laptop hard drive.... (Linux-Kernel)
Re: Too much hard drives failing ... But the disks are really broken. ... What kind of failures are these? ... We have recently added 20 servers to our little farm, ... the core of our work ... (Fedora)
