Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate ST3000DM001

2012-07-12 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 07/11/2012 08:21 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > > Newegg sent me a 10% coupon that will result in a 3 TB drive at my door for > $135. They track what you look at and if you don't buy right away will offer > enticements a few days later. > I bought 4 of these a couple of weeks ago. :) Oh we

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate ST3000DM001

2012-07-11 Thread Reginald Beardsley
later. I Have Fun! Reg --- On Wed, 7/11/12, Timothy Coalson wrote: > From: Timothy Coalson > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate ST3000DM001 > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 4:42 PM > While I haven't used th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate ST3000DM001

2012-07-11 Thread Timothy Coalson
While I haven't used that particular model, if it mentions advanced format/smartalign, then it probably at least has a version that uses 4k sectors, and smartalign as I understand it basically means that the drive exposes this in a way that the OS can detect (part of the identify command I think?).

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate ST3000DM001

2012-07-11 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Anyone have any experience w/ these w/ Solaris 10 & ZFS? The system this is for is an HP Z400 on the last Sun release of Solaris 10. This is a single large non-booting pool used for temporary files. Single drive, no RAID. The blurb touts "Seagate SmartAlign technology for no-hassle transition