[REVIEW] Drobo

[Paul Makepeace]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Simon Wistow <simon at thegestalt.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:33:29PM +0000, Dave Cantrell said:
> > My old LaCie drives worked just fine 24 hours a day for years.  I'll be
> > Quite Pissed Off my the WD things can't do the same.
>
> The MyBook ran mostly on for a couple of years but I think it was the
> strain of copying over all the data. Maybe.


I'd say you were just unlucky, or the thing got beaten about in transit or
had a lot of power cycling stress. Service life of a drive is 3+ years
normally and failure rates around 2yrs would be in the order of <<10% of
drives under continuous, heavy load.