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My 300Gb 10,000rpm Velociraptors have died in droves. I have 5 of them, 2 in RAID 1, 2 in RAID 0, and a spare. I have replaced 8 drives over the last 1.5 years. That's right some have been replaced twice!
The MTBF numbers are very misleading.
What I don't understand is how I have had computers that lasted 6-10 years as hand me downs when I'm done with them on cheap consumer drives and all the "server" drives fail after so little time.
The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale
As an early advocate of solid state hard drives … The State of Solid State Hard Drives (October 2009) Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives (October 2010) … I feel ethically and morally obligated to let you in on a dirty little secret I've discovered in the last two years of full time SSD owne...
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