On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM, David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org> wrote:
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> this). The technology and manufacturing processes are common across many
> different types of product. They either all work , or they all fail.
Most of it is. But certain parts are fairly new, i.e. the
controllers. It is quite possible that all these various failing
drives share some long term ~ 1 year degradation issue like the 6Gb/s
SAS ports on the early sandybridge Intel CPUs. If that's the case
then the just plain up and dying thing makes some sense.