Multiple disk failures within two months

Hi,
We have six fiber disks and six scsi disks on our Sun V880, solaris 9. Within the last two months we have two scsi disk failures and four fiber disk failures. We replaced the disks. To avoid possible future problems, Sun suggested us to replace the FCAL disk backplane and cables, and I am not sure whether this is a good way to go. Thanks for your input!

StorageReview use to have an excellent drive reliability database. MLII and DM9, anything prior to MaxLine III or DM10 were not that good, but had been since. Unfortunately, outside the few enterprise MaxLine Pro or DM11, Seagate has gutted their line and trying to turn Maxtor into low end consumer... while the 7200.10 series has problems of its own.

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