On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at 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. > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //