In my case I think it actually was the drives though, it was the same model Barracuda. Looks like they're replacing them with Toshibas now, so I'm hopeful. > B

In my case I think it actually was the drives though, it was the same model Barracuda. Looks like they're replacing them with Toshibas now, so I'm hopeful. > BTW, I have worked with many providers but Hetzner is my favourite. Great support and very few problems. I'll second this. Support is/was often a horror story for me, but so far Hetzner has been absolutely impeccable. Contrast this with Mediatemple, where I once had to engage in a lengthy support battle with a chain of incredibly ignorant and condescending support staff before being escalated to a senior person who finally, finally admitted I had found huge problem with the cluster. This took several days of intermittent outages, dozens of emails, and a lot of energy...