[mythtvnz] HDD Load Cycle Count ticking over too fast

[Steve Hodge]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> Unfortunately, 7200.11 drives are crap anyway and tend to die soon
> with lots of bad sectors, even after you unbrick them.  I think I have
> had about 5 of mine do that, and had to be replaced under warranty. I
> had one drive that had to be replaced twice!


I've got 5 1.5TB 7200.11 drives. One is my recordings drive for Myth and
the other 4 are in a RAID5 that is mostly full of my DVD rips. Two of the
RAID drives are showing high relocated sector counts so will fail at some
point (one of them is reporting imminent failure). The other three drives
have relocated sectors too, but very low numbers. Some of these drives are
over 3 years old, including both the drives with high relocated sectors, so
they are out of warranty. All the drives have the CC1H firmware. The
7200.11 series definitely has problems, but it seems to be a matter of
luck. The main reason I've stuck with Seagate is their longer warranties.

Cheers,
Steve
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