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Originally Posted by gum5h03
Sounds like you have a cooling issue causing your drives to fail. That failure rate is definitely not the norm in any use case. Could also be your SATA/ PATA card (on-board also)is fubar'ing them as well. I've seen some cards that have caused big issues with drives - no matter what brand you put in.
Here's an interesting study that Google did on HD failure rates. They took failure numbers from their own huge storage array and tried to correlate it to real world numbers.
http://209.85.163.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf |
So far this is an interesting read.