[Sguil-users] IDE Hard drives for sguil?

[Brett C. <br...@wr...>]

 	I've got a server/sensor install on a single box using a single hard 
drive monitoring some rather slow links - T1's and DSL lines, 4 sensors total.
 	While the other hardware in this Xeon 2.1 GHz box seems adequate, I've 
managed to drill holes in several IDE drives in succession. All of these have 
been Hitachi/IBM Deskstars in 160 or 320 GB sizes and the manufacturer's diag 
program lists their failures as due to "Excessive Shock". I know for a fact the 
drives have not been dropped so I'm curious.
 	Am I asking too much of the ATA/133 architecture?
 	I am using a single drive for all of this but each sensor has its own 
partition. I've got a bunch of SCSI Ultra160 drives laying around but they're 
pretty small. I guess I could dedicate a drive to each sensor but continue to 
boot with IDE...
 	Any thoughts?

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