RE: 8 Gig Drives

[James Turnbull <jamest@xxxxxxxxxx>]

They had warning.  All three minutes of it.  I believe the order of the
warnings is Potential Disk Error, Imminent Disk Error, and Disk Failure.
I would go back and try to persuade your management to fork out the
extra drive and controller.  RAID is vital in my opinion for ensuring
data integrity.

                                                        James Turnbull
                                                        AS/Tech
Consulting

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Neil Palmer [SMTP:NPalmer@NxTrend.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, 17 September 1997 12:58
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: 8 Gig Drives

        James Turnbull wrote:
        > 
        > A customer lost three 8 Gb drives in five days.  All failed
due to a
        > problem with vibration.  I have heard from IBM that this is
the first
        > major hardware problem they have had with the new drives.
Looks like
        > they got a bad batch somewhere.
        > 

        James,

        Were these hard (non-pumpable) failures with no advance warning
?

        Hmmm - I have a model 600 on order with three 8.5GB drives.
Management
        wouldn't spring for the 4th one and the RAID-5 controller !
:-(
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