Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.

Re:Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners... by ChuckMcM on Saturday September 08, 2012 @01:30AM (#4492332)

The ones that had been shipping for a few years. Like many things they all start life the least stable, go through several firmware revisions, maybe a couple of hardware revisions, and then everyone hits about the same level of reliability if they don't change them further.

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Re:Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners... by wazoox on Saturday September 08, 2012 @08:13AM (#4492814)

Yup, last time I've been beaten was with "brand new fresh from the factory new model" 3 TB drives. The crappy firmware failed badly under load and I nearly lost 60 TB. Recent firmwares pose no problem, though.

OTOH 1 and 2 TB from HGST were absolutely rock-solid from the start. Only lost a handful of them among several thousand installed. By contrast in the past years I've had a steady 50% failure rate on Barracuda ES2, the shittiest drive on earth since the legendary 9 GB Micropolis.

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Re:Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners... by InclinedPlane on Saturday September 08, 2012 @02:20PM (#4493555)

I had so much trouble with those seagates that it put me off ever buying from them again.

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