[Techtalk] Drive Failures

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:10:18PM -0700 or thereabouts, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> Over the past five months, I have had six separate hard drives fail either 
> during the initial deployment of a server, or during its active operation. 
> While two of the older drives failed for legitimate reasons, the remaining 
> four failures are a cause for concern. 

Ugh. 

[snip]

> Before the motherboard and power supply are replaced, does anyone have 
> suggestions or a possible explanation for these hardware failures?

The only possible thing I can think of is to ask whether all this
succession of drives were originally bought as a batch from the
same place. 

I was amazed to find both my RAID discs dying within hours of each
other. This became less amazing when I found that the serial numbers
were separated by two digits: they were from the same bad batch or
something. Apparently this sort of thing happening is well-known to 
everyone except me. 

I presume that you were actually buying as they were required, but
you don't say, so I ask just to rule it out.

Telsa