Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> Seems unlikely that faulty server software could cause a disk failure.
> One possibility is that your power supply is a but stressed and the
> supply rails are out of tolerance.  The other possibility is that the
> drives are overheating.  Higher density drives will be more sensitive
> to both heat and dirty power.

A third possibility is that all disks came from the same batch (and I've 
been bitten by that).  After all, there's a reason why 250Gb can be 
squeezed into such a piddly package...

-- Dave