The repair of the array ended just like the last time -- with a hang. The Synology NAS box stopped serving files. I went into the admin console and saw that it thought it was still repairing: Went I looked at the volume, it said repairing, but the progress … [Read more...]
The great Barracuda die-off
As I said a couple of posts ago, I'm replacing the 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives that have had such terrible reliability -- 4 failures out of 8 disks in a little over two years -- in one or my Synology NAS boxes. I've decided to to this in place, by replacing eachof the four … [Read more...]
Toyota’s great sales strategy
From an article in today's WSJ: Clever, huh? … [Read more...]
Barracuda failures — preemption or not?
The two recent 3 TB Barracuda failures on one of my Synology NAS boxes, bringing the total to four dead disks in 27 months, has made me think that this particular school of Barracudas might well have a common wear mechanism, and that the other four may fail soon, possibly -- if … [Read more...]
Two more Barracuda failures
Ian Fleming used to have James Bond say, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action." I had my third Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive fail in a little over two years. Then, as the RAID was rebuilding, I had a fourth Barracuda bite its last … [Read more...]
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