Too much hard drives failing

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 07:49:40 UTC 2007


Pablo Povarchik wrote:
> We have recently added 20 servers to our little farm, 7 of which were
> having hard failuers on disks (SATA, Seagate, good brand new SuperMicro
> boxes)
> 
> The fact is that this failures are coming up right after we decided to
> move to reiserfs.
> 
> Can 7 out of 20 hard drives be defective (yes, of course, but what is
> the % probability for this)?
> Can this anyhow be related with reiserfs?

You might want to check the power in your datacentre. I have come across 
an issue where servers in a particular rack failed a lot, particularly 
the hard disks. An in depth investigation of that particular rack 
revealed a faulty power strip in that rack.

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Vivek J. Patankar

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