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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.
Commented May 4, 2011 on The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale at Coding Horror
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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