From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 05:31:30 EDT
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:48:07 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
>Thank you David for the address. Such a simple thing, really. And would
>have gone <whoosh> past me. I will write them.
>
>As for the disks, nope, they were two seperate model runs completely, and we
>blew out a Micropolis 2G in this manner, as well. The purpose of this disk
>was being the home directory for about 10,000 accounts, with 24/7 activity,
>always. Each of the three disks ran flawlessly right up until about the last
>30 hours of life, when they started emmiting a piteous squealing sound. After
>the first death, we've become adept at recognizing the Sound of Emminent Death
>and do emergency backups and change disks.
>
If there's any sound I hate with computers, it's the sound of the
bearings on a hard drive going out. I was lucky to
make backups of 2 years (about 10K messages) of this
list before my Seagate SCSI drive went out.
I have noticed before that IBM doesn't put MTBF values on their
website; has this changed recently? Most of my equipment
(especially my SPARC) I keep running 24/7, sometimes on for weeks without
shutting down (and this includes ThinkPads with new drives).
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