Is anyone else experiencing multiple hard drive failures lately?

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Is anyone else experiencing multiple hard drive failures lately?

October 17, 2006 on 12:20 pm | In Techspeak |

In the last month, I’ve had the following run-ins with failing hard drives:

A local credit union had two teller stations in different offices die, and a third started to act up, but running SpinRite, chkdsk, and defrag seems to have fixed it.
A local law office lost a drive in their server, as well as an external drive attached to their server. Today, about two weeks later, one of the lawyer’s workstation drives died as well.
A client’s home PC had a drive failure.
A client’s main Citrix server lost not one, but two drives in its RAID array.

All of these happened in separate towns (Bethel, Randolph, Rochester, Rutland, and Woodstock, Vermont), in Dell computers, running a mix Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital hard drives. I’m no stranger to hard drive failures, but having so many fail all in such a short timeframe seems a bit odd. Anyone else experiencing this sort of behavior lately? If so, leave a comment. I’d love to hear from you.

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I went through a few spells of hard drive failures over the years. A few years ago, I had three in 6 months, and just a couple of years ago, I had two in the same week die. It happens - the worst time for hard drives dying is when they are brand new (something was wrong already) or after a year. I had bad luck with WD drives but also with some IBM’s more recently.

Comment by radaronpaws — October 17, 2006 #
You mean IB/Hitachi “Deathstars” (Deskstars)? Bar none, these are the worst drives we’ve ever seen, from a reliability standpoint.

Comment by peter — October 18, 2006 #
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s what the last two were.

Comment by radaronpaws — October 19, 2006 #

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