Thats it, its fact, I am a true bonafide hard drive killer. Just had one go about two minutes ago, 1 last week, 1 a week before that and 8 last year. This is really getting on my nerves, considering I have lost SO much important data, even data on RAID 1 arrays, in which both hard disks randomly died.
I doubt it has been the powersupply, because this happened across three different power supplies. I am sure one is because of bad voltage, logic board is crapped, data should be intact but I cannot afford an identical one. This recent one is most likely the cause of heat though.
How do your PSU's hold up? If you have a really bad wall supply, you could be killing them off/making them deliver non-spec voltages/nasty ripple and noise. What kind of temps were you seeing? (Assuming you monitored them)
I admit it's strange that it's just HDD's which are being affected, but you might be experiencing power surges? Are the systems protected by a UPS, or at least a surge protector strip?
not one I could, One issue or another gets in the way. two hard disks had "scratches" none visible that I could see, a few I had no receipt for, or the receipt from the company I bought it from wasn't good enough. So I just give up on RMA and swallow the bullet.
Stick a fan on your drives, don't knock them around and there no reason why they shouldn't last a decade.
This has got to be a temperature problem. I can think of nothing else that would wipe out so many drives so quickly.
Well.. yeah.. Maybe his case has developed a magnetic charge? Is it pointing north every morning despite how it was left the night before?
The remains of my 11 disk FS, in a generic case. The mobo went south, taking 6 drives with it. the other 2 i put into a different server. These 3, they happen to be the most useless of them too. IBM Deathstar, Quantum Fireball, and an old 1gb hard drive running FreeBSD 6.1 (with a fully updated ports tree)
