RE: Perhaps their time has come.....

I lost a number of 6713's on two systems at a previous employer - they did seem to have a high mortality rate. Thankfully, only 1 at a time.

Have to laugh now when you think back to 8.5gb drives.


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
OCEAN User Group

Subject: Re: Perhaps their time has come.....
From: hs@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:47:28 +0200
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Last week, three 4328 (140GB) drives in two servers failed within the same hour. But with the 4326 we do not had any failure in the last 4 years. As soon as there is no failure of two devices in a RAID set, we are rather relaxed as we have more than 100 units 4326 in stock - they had been cheap and are still in use by older systems.

Until now, the disk with the highest failure rate were the good old 6713 if i remember correctly. I do not have a good statistical overview at the moment. We have more than 3000 disks spinning at the moment and about 2000 out of service within the last 10 years - maybe it would be worth the efforts?

-h

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