[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[David Moore]

On 05/10/11 02:56, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> If you have not built a PC for a while, be aware that hard drives are
> rather less reliable these days.  Do not buy any Seagate 7200.11
> drives, even if you get them for $1 on TradeMe, as they collapse
> without warning.  I have had all but one of mine die, and then the
> replacements also die!  The older 7200.10 ones are very reliable, and
> the 7200.12 ones are OK - comparable with the other manufacturers. But
> it seems that all the home use (cheaper) drives are made now on the
> basis that they will have a high failure rate and they will just be
> replaced as necessary.  I have had problems with Seagate and Western
> Digital drives.  So far I have not had any problems with the Hitachi 3
> Tbyte ones, but they are pretty new still.  I have only one Samsung
> drive, and that has been good too.  Make sure you install SMART
> monitoring software to alert you before a drive finally crashes. The
> failure modes I have met recently all showed up on SMART at least a
> few days before final death, and I have been able to copy off my data.
>
I guess I got lucky with my 500 MB 7200.11? Maybe something to do with 
temperature? Mine's running at around 33 deg C according to smartctl. 
This drive is about two years old.

What kind of early failure warnings did you get from SMART?