On-Rev server Pancake problems - old backup restored?

[Richard Gaskin]

It's a fun article, but somewhat unfair to all the other HDD 
manufacturers.  BackBlaze puts their drives through a level of use far 
beyond what just about any home user will ever need, so seeing shorter 
MTTF for Seagate doesn't make me not want a Barracuda.

TechReport recently ran a stress test on SSDs, and like BackBlaze's HDD 
tests all units performed beyond specs:

<http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead>

Never hurts to buy the best, but for most of us second-best, or 
even-third best, is probably going to serve us well - unless we're 
running a server farm, then I'd stick with Hitachi. :)

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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Jerry Jensen wrote:

> Thanks, Richard. Interesting data in that article.
> I’ve been buying HGST Ultrastar drives. I’m surprised to not see them mentioned in the article. I prefer them for their 5 year warranty, which implies that they may last longer. The price difference is not much compared to what a failure costs in time and aggravation. I don’t have thousands of them, like backblaze, but maybe a dozen. So far I have no failure data because there have been NO failures.
> .Jerry
>
>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 6:39 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> Alex Shaw wrote:
>>
>>> Very inconvenient but it's too easy to get upset about these things.
>>>
>>> I've certainly had my fair share of hardware problems so..
>>
>> Apparently the key is to buy Hitachi/HGST:
>>
>> <https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/>
>>
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>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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