reliability sucks

at work we bought a batch of 16 x 320G drives, of which five failed and were sent to Seagate - nearly 33% failure rate in the first 10 months! We've had four 750G drives fail out of 160, so 1 in 40 or 2.5% in under a year.

I never used to be worried about my personal/home server data, but now I am *religious* about ensuring data is triplicated - once on server (mirrored), backup on my desktop, and an encrypted tarball on my NAS.