Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-08 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-03-07 17:21, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of luis Johnstone As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of luis Johnstone > > I am about to acquire some disks for use with ZFS (currently using zfs-fuse > v0.7.0). I'm aware of some 4k alignment issues with Western Digital advanced > format disks. > A

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-07 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
We're using Hitachi HDS723030ALA640 on this rather busy server, and they've been stable for about a year - I don't even think we've lost any yet (out of 22) roy - Opprinnelig melding - Greetings, Quick question: I am about to acquire some disks for use with ZFS (currently usi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Lou Picciano
- Original Message - From: "Jordan McQuown" To: "Jan-Peter Koopmann" Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:36:54 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS > -Original Me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Jordan McQuown
ect: Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 > HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter pe...@koopmann.eu> wrote: > > Do you or anyone else have experience with the 3TB 5K3000 drives > > (namely HDS5C3030ALA630)? I am thin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: > Do you or anyone else have experience with the 3TB 5K3000 drives > (namely HDS5C3030ALA630)? I am thinking of replacing my current 4*1TB drives > with 4*3TB drives (home server). Any issues with TER or alike? I have been using 8 x 3TB 5

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 05:40, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, luis Johnstone > wrote: > > As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses > 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issues (because it > doesn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-06 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Brandon, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, luis Johnstone mailto:l...@luisjohnstone.com>> wrote: As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issues (because it doesn't lie about the physical layout of sectors o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-05 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, luis Johnstone wrote: > As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses > 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issues (because it > doesn't lie about the physical layout of sectors on-platter) Both the 7K3000 and 5K3000 d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-05 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) We are using these disks. They work fine with ZFS. Regards -- Volker -- Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH

[zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-05 Thread luis Johnstone
Greetings, Quick question: I am about to acquire some disks for use with ZFS (currently using zfs-fuse v0.7.0). I'm aware of some 4k alignment issues with Western Digital advanced format disks. As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses 512B sectors and so I presume