i hate hard drives
 

I hate hard drives, esp new ones that fail a week after put in use.

that is all.

cool.....

solid state drives are getting cheaper

One of my Raptors finally died after 5½ years. :(

Jeff's harddrive already died? DAMN!!!

its fixed, all is good, I was able to save all data. I need to talk to you guys on monday, need to talk about upgrading to a free raid solution.

thank you joel

Don't buy cheap hard drives. :2 cents:

I back things up like a motha these days. Hard drives are so unpredictable sometimes right out of the box.

same here i backup the backups lolll

I hate them too but I've accepted that failure is inevitable. They're a compromise between high tolerance and spec, and being reasonably priced. One host used enterprise grade drives for a while but it didn't seem to make any difference. :(

All of my USA web servers have RAID1 for availability
My office NAS uses a 5 disk RAID array
Then I have 2 sets of backup disks, one is always offsite

If something goes bang then I'm reasonably protected... but it's still not bulletproof...

It's the people who don't know that HDs will fail (or don't know how to backup) that I feel sorry for.

My 300GB Velociraptor died after a year. It was replaced with a new one that also has the full 5 year warranty. :thumbsup

I guarantee you bought a seagate or maxtor.