problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:26:04AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote..
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > I don't have any experience with the Hitachi 1TB SATA drives, but I 
> > know an outfit that was trying out the Seagate 1TB drives and had 8 
> > out of 12 fail their burn-in (a 3 day torture test)  My luck with 
> > consumer SATA drives has been incredibly dismal, with ~40 of them in 
> > service I see multiple failures a year, including drives being DOA 
> > and dying after a few weeks of service.  I wouldn't be at all 
> > surprised if one or both of the drives was bad right out of the box.  

> makes backing up 300GB+ of data easy.  Everything that's capable of
> doing this is in the tens of thousands of US dollars, if not more.  Am I
> going to sit around once a week backing up a terabyte of data to ~120
> dual-layer 8.5GB DVDs?  Nope.  The closest thing out there right now is

Which are only available in write-once in dual-layer so you would soon have
a landfill worth of DVDs.

> A new IOMega REV (which includes one 70GB disk) costs US$600 MSRP.  You
> read that right.

Pff.  Find a pre-owned SuperDLT or LTO drive?  Not the cheapest I guess,
but dual-layer DVDs are not a solution IMHO.

Or get a Blu-ray disk?  Also still $$ 

I'm using an LTO2 drive myself.

> * SCSI is outrageously expensive even in 2007.  I have yet to see any
> shred of justification for why SCSI costs so much *even today*.  It
> costs only a smidgen less than it did 15 years ago.
> 
> * SCSI is on its way out.  Seagate recently announced that
> they'll no longer be supporting SCSI products, possibly by the end of
> next year:
> 
> "Seagate has announced that by next year they will no longer be
> supporting SCSI product and will be moving customers to the SATA
> interface."
> http://www.horizontechnology.com/news/market/market_perspective_storage_04-11-2007.php

I imagine this is meant to read as: parallel SCSI, as opposed to SAS.
SAS is very much alive.

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