On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Wes James comptekki@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net
wrote:
Am 01.11.2013 23:51, schrieb Wes James:
That was it. This is an old mac pro that I put centos on yesterday.
It
had 4 disks in it and this is the 3rd that has died. A faculty member
had
it for 5-6 years and it was on 24/7. It's been in the junk pile for several months. I guess long enough for the disks to go south from
sitting
on so long then going off for a period... maybe.... Anyone heard of
this?
The drive was probably ready to die before that system was shut off and stored. It's more about the 24/7 usage (drive spinning) for that many years, power conditioning (outages/brownouts), or environmental conditions (heat, poor air flow, gobs of dust).
power down a disk which was running 6 years 24/7 and it most likely goes bad
especially Apple Hardware since this unholy crap company even built in the expensive X-Server "Hitachi Deskstar" disks and sold them
Deathstar ;)
like gold
These are seagate barracuda 7200 rpm 750gig disks.
You should consider software raid if you want a tad of redundancy.
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