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It shouldn't be that I have to affirm that a drive has already given me trouble. I should just have to show that I'm using a drive in an application where I wo
by parsimo2010 7y ago
It shouldn't be that I have to affirm that a drive has already given me trouble. I should just have to show that I'm using a drive in an application where I would have problems in the future.
Product safety recalls don't require you to get food poisoning or take shrapnel in your face from a bad airbag before fixing the issue. I don't want to wait until my RAID fails a rebuild and I lose data.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoAre SMR drives actually more likely to loose data than CMR drives? I was under the impression they had performance issues, but were reliable with regard to data integrity.
- Silhouette 7y agoThat depends on your situation. If you have a single redundant drive in your storage system and you lose a drive, and if a rebuild takes you multiple weeks instead of hours and during that time a second drive fails, you are going to lose the whole system and need to restore everything from backups. That's a pretty serious flaw in a drive advertised specifically for use in these systems, when reducing the risk of that downtime is the purpose of having the system in the first place.