I've just experienced a double disk failure on my raid 0 array

[Tony Scharf]

I'd bet your drives were both from the same batch and had some shared
fault.  I would definitely check with the manufacturer to see if there
had been a recall. It is highly unusual for two dirves to die that
quickly.  We have servers here running raid 5 and we have very few
drive replacements.

tony

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
> Søren Knudsen schreef:
>
>> Yes, you are right. But still. They are only 10 months old, so I figured the first of them to fail had a small build error, but seeing the second one go soon after.... I guess that’s just how long they should last when running 24/7 :?
>
> Hmm, that's a bit dodgy, yes. My Sun at work has a pretty standard IDE
> drive of 110 GB (and an old 20 GB one, that gets switched spun up on
> demand) that runs 24/7, and I have no idea for how long now.
>
>> The first of the replacement discs I ordered was a Samsung Spinpoint F1 Desktop identical to the ones that failed. When I ordered the second, I got the a Samsung Spinpoint F1 Raid, which is allegedly made for servers and not desktops. I'll see if that disc lasts longer (and cost nearly twice as much, but what the heck - I don’t want to lose my data).
>
> Hmm, I'd be careful taking consumer grade discs and running them 24/7,
> though. This is one reason why I prefer the more expensive discs - in
> general, they last longer, or give fewer problems.
>
> - Peter
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