Am 2005-01-25 12:57:10, schrieb Martin Bock:
Nicolas,
You refer to some IBM/Hitachi drives. What was their manufacturing year?
Michelles's drives seem rather old to me, may be something changed in
the meantime?
My IBM experience is also based on rather old drives (4yrs+).
With the old Drives I have had never problems.
The newer drives, for example in my postgresql Server IC35L120AA are
working in a 3Ware 3c7406-4 RAID-5 since more then 3 years without
any problems. Two of my FileServers (3Ware too) using the 180 GByte
HDDs.