Comments on: Why do Good Hard Drives Go Bad?

By: Josh the Aspie

Josh the Aspie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:58:23 +0000

The problem with Redundant RAIDs (or any other RAID) for that matter, is that you either need to have a duplicate hard drive waiting in case of a drive failure, or stop using your computer until the new disk arrives.

Failing that, or removing the RAID array and just working off the one drive (in the case of a mirrored drive), you’re increasingly likely to find yourself with another hard drive problem on your hand.

By: modifoo

modifoo — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:03:55 +0000

Scary (i.e. up-waking) and partly surprising post. Reading that one, it is surprizing that not more vendors offer a redundant RAID system. Everyone focusses on hard disk capacity. But with prices going down all the time, maybe this would be a good time for the industry to re-think its strategy?

Or us – consumers -?

By: links for 2007-07-20 | The Marketing Technology Blog

links for 2007-07-20 | The Marketing Technology Blog — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:27:06 +0000

[...] Why do Good Hard Drives Go Bad? | Thor Schrock’s Technology Blog Hard drive failure can happen to anyone at any time and is simply luck of the draw. A new Google-backed study with a sample size of 100,000 hard drives proves it. (tags: harddrives failure statistics) [...]

By: JoshtheAspie

JoshtheAspie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:06:57 +0000

Also, keep in mind that if one drive in a RAID array goes bad, another is likely to go bad quickly as well, due to the disruption to the array.

By: Personal Blog

Personal Blog — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:12:18 +0000

Somethings are like that and some are. I’ve boughten two TV’s from best buy in the last 7 yrs. and they always want me to buy their 4 yr. replacement thing. I say, it’s a damn TV if it breaks on my some one is going to feel my wrath. LoL