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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them! |
A new server that I ordered from a USA based webhost had one of its Seagate drives fail during install; now the replacement (which was supposed to be new) is showing 99 reallocated sectors and a power on hours value that suggests it's newish, but certainly not new.
There's no absolute failure, but 99 reallocated sectors after being powered on for a month is definitely a worry. There's also the fact that the webhost's supplier was supposed to send him a new drive, not one with a POH value of 643.
Until recently my bad luck with Seagate drives was limited to local boxes within arms reach, unfortunately it now seems to be spreading to my USA hosted servers. This is the second time in about 6 weeks that a Seagate drive in a newly ordered USA server has looked a little sick, or failed... and that's even before the server is doing anything useful.
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A complete list of all recent hard drive failures in the office
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Don't unplug a mounted drive under FreeBSD!
More Seagates on the way out
Goodbye Seagate
4th WD drive failure
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