Doc wrote...
>    I'm going to suggest a bigger case, to start with.
That's possible, we'll see when I look at the case.
> is reasonable, and we *very* rarely see the frequency of drive failures
> that you're getting.  When we do, it's invariably thermal issues in 1U
> rack cases.  A lot of the 1U cases just don't provide adequate cooling
> for high-activity, high-RPM drives.
This case has some serious airflow due to the many fans plus the large
blower motor. I don't think that the classiccmp server hard drive has failed
but twice in about 5 or so years. Not great, but not a really bad failure
rate methinks.
>    Do I remember you run FreeBSD?  Set up a nice SATA pair or triplet
> and run software RAID.
Never ever ever ever run any raid level in software. It's always a bad idea.
>    If you want IDE or SATA hardware RAID, go 3ware.  They rock.
I'll have a looksee.
Jay
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