[j-nsp] High failure rates for M7i/M10i hard disks?

[Michael Loftis]

--On August 26, 2005 3:55:35 PM -0400 Richard A Steenbergen 
<ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:


> I hope they're not actually saying that the hard drive can't handle being
> written to every 10 secs?

I think what they're not saying is more important.  Likely this relates to 
SMART and the automatic periodic SMART tests, so they've probably 
improperly implemented some portion of SMART and rather than fix that, they 
are doing this.  That said, I've never seen this sort of problem on any 
system I've ever built, including embedded systems that had custom ASICs or 
FPGAs running SMART enabled HDDs.  Atleast not yet anyway so...it does 
sound like something that Juniper has implemented very incorrectly.