Re: 2TB file system
2011/8/17 Pete Orrall <ppatfcb@gmail.com>:
>> BTW:
>> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM?
>
> I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business.
>
>> I am just asking because I didn't have
>> the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke
>> within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for them :D ).
>
> How interesting. I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi
> drives, hence the nickname "Hitachi DeathStar" but myself...I've had no
> problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than 80GB
> all the way to 1TB.
No, no, those wer the *IBM* Deathstar drives. There was a particular
run of IBM Deskstar drives that all failed after a certain amount of
usage due to some non-obvious manufacturing flaw: I had several RAID
arrays built from those that were ruined by losing drives faster than
I could replace them.
I was almost immediately fired because *I* had done backups on spare
tapes and was able to save them, but my supervisor was really upset
that I had ignored his edict that "those drives are scratch space!!!".
See, I actually *looked* and checked what people had on them. I
probably saved 2 years of work on several projects, because I didn't
rely on an unwritten and unannounced edict of "that space is scratch
and not backed up".
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