[techtalk] Re: Disk errors in Event Viewer IBM Drives
- From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:42:41 +0100
* Andrew Davidson (andrew@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> At 18:17 26/05/2004, you wrote:
>
> > 1) is there away with PCs to mark bad sectors, as there was with my
> > Amiga?
>
> Yes, but with an old IBM you're just putting off the inevitable, and
> risking your data. Bin fodder for that 75GXP I doubt.
My IBM's going on 5 years old, still going strong :)
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 096 096 000 Old_age Always
- 28804
Only oddity:
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 2263
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 940
It likes to stop/start itself for no apprant reason. Good thing drives
are usually designed for a minimum of 50,000 cycles :)
> > 2) Lurking around here just recently as I do I think Seagates have
> > been getting the thumbs up, any particular one? My IBM is 30Gb so 40
> > or above would do.
I have 4 7200.7's; they're fine, but tbh if you're more bothered by
performance than size and acoustics you might as well go for a 10-15kRPM
drive; max transfer rate won't be much better, but seek time will be on
the order of 4x faster.
> Seagate make fairly good drives. Failure rate is quite low. They're
> not the fastest drives available, and they don't make anything above
> 200Gb, but otherwise they're fine.
Their 200G drives are still the only 100G platter drives I know of; that
means they're 2 platter drives, making them quieter and cooler than
the competition. Speed wise they're also near the top end with regard
to max transfer rate. Seek time's are a little low, but that's common
to all dense platter drives, except perhaps very high end SCSI ones.
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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@xxxxxxxx - http://www.aagh.net/
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