[Linux-users] Saga of the mail server

[David Bandel]

On 8/27/07, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> James McDonald wrote:
> > David Bandel wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >>
> >> The big question is, what could possibly be causing all these disk
> >> problems?  Nothing else seems affected.  Can't be just coincidence.
> >> One drive a year is about average for me.  But now 6 in less than a
> >> month?  I'm complete flummoxed.
>
> When a manufacturing environment forgets the recipe, they can ship
> garbage for a long time until the first service calls surface.  Didn't I
> hear from others on this list that Western Digital drives were not stellar?
>
>

Drives involved included Samsung, WD, and others.  While I do have
UPS', and they are the filtered ones, they are not on-line UPS'.
Those I would have to buy on-line and ship down unless someone in
Panama City has some.

I have no RF near the building except the two radios on the roof (very
low power -- they're my 5.8GHz radios), and I keep the server room A/C
running at all times.

While it could be power (that goes on and off here like the rain, and
when it comes on, sometimes things go pop), I don't recall any power
glitches last nite or when they other 4 drives went (but I might have
missed these).  Usually, my UPS' send me an e-mail when power goes off
and comes on, but that doesn't preclude a good spike.

I may need to look at going all 12v, but that might be difficult with
the power requirements of the two Dell PowerEdge servers I have.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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