I am returning the 4 drives I planned to use in the expanders, but will keep the two I'm using as my mirrored boot pool.
My intention was to use these are ZIL and L2ARC drives, so I can do without them for now. I've had very good luck with these Samsung drives in non-SAS usages—quite a bit more reliable in my (admittedly quite limited) experience than the SanForce-based SSDs. Here's hoping they've fixed this on the 840 Pro models. Thank you all for your help. I learned something new and now understand why it doesn't work. :-) -Scott On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Scott Marcy wrote: >> >> I called Samsung and they basically told me there was nothing they could do. >> The guy I spoke with said the 830s weren't intended to be used in servers. >> (He did seem to understand what I was talking about, which was actually more >> than I expected from simply picking up the phone and getting transferred >> twice to get to the right department. So at least kudos to Samsung there.) > > Maybe you should try to return these and get your money back. The problem > does not seem to be specific to use in a "server". > > The physical block size also seems to be reported incorrectly. > > Samsung cut corners by not taking the time to give each device a unique > addressable ID as part of their manufacturing process. It may even be that a > step was "accidentally" skipped in the manufacturing process (to make quotas) > and that some devices are correctly configured from the factory while others > are not. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
