Breaking news! Hard drives running 24/7 for nine years get bad sectors [Archive]

WetWired

2014-09-13, 06:54 PM

Yeah... Back to 2013... This time the HDDs are RAID 1 instead of RAID 0, so maybe they'll last 18 years...

Chruser

2014-09-13, 06:57 PM

Welcome back to the forum that only dies sometimes.

Lenny

2014-09-14, 04:20 AM

Boy, am I glad I haven't posted much over the past year - only a handful of posts lost! :p

-Spector-

2014-09-16, 08:21 AM

I'm impressed, last year I had three hard drives go within two months.

Dar_Win

2014-09-18, 12:01 PM

All of my posts were backed up to a special drive right?

Sovereign

2014-09-22, 08:57 PM

Yeah... Back to 2013... This time the HDDs are RAID 1 instead of RAID 0, so maybe they'll last 18 years...

Unacceptable. Get your shit together.