It isn't surprising that HP3000 hard drives are failing. We see this 
every day. The disk drives that the HP3000s and HP9000s are using are in 
some cases more than 10 years PAST the manufacturer's designed lifetime! 
Most failures are detected during a full backup or at month end 
processing because that is the only time that most or all of the data on 
the disk is accessed. You are actually lucky if the drive simply dies. 
The two worst cases are a) when no errors are reported by the disk or 
system but data is corrupted slowly over time, (think now that multiple 
backups are no good), and b) After a power outage multiple drives fail 
to spin up and two of them are mirrored pairs (think mirror/iX, VA 
array, Model 20s ...)

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Beechglen has been offering a triple store appliance that combines new 
HDD or SSD disks to replace traditional storage and tape backups. The 
storage appliance is low cost, and allows ongoing maintenance of every 
backup locally and encrypted into the cloud.

Beechglen, also offers economical hosting of your HP3000s and HP9000s in 
our cloud.

For more information, feel free to call or email me,


Lance Mortenson   513-922-0509 x425

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