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Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize
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The SoftRAID website states:
"We recommend that disks in servers be replaced after 20,000–25,000 hours. These disks are usually properly cooled and are not subject to the stress of being turned on and off, but they often experience periods of intense activity. This number of hours corresponds to 2–3 years of use in a server which is on 24 hours a day."
(1) Is this still recommended for WDC Gold and HGST UltraStar drives that have a 5 year warranty?
(2) If the server drives, which are mounted in properly cooled exterior enclosures, are going to sit idle for perhaps 12 hours is it better for drive life to turn the enclosure off or leave it running?
Posted : 21/04/2017 7:01 pm
We are very conservative on disks, and make this low hours of use recommendation based on stats. We find after 3 years, the disk failure rates start to climb steadily.
Fortunately, if you keep a drive longer, our predictive failure technology should be able to give you advance warning in many cases.
Posted : 21/04/2017 10:36 pm
