Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-13 Thread Jacques
-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Warning: device does not support SCT Commands -Jacques >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, using latest SVN of smartmontools: AHCI reads

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-13 Thread Jacques
I did some more research and the findings were very interesting. I bought an Samsung HD103SJ (1tb 7200rpm with two 500gb platters). When you boot the drive cold, SCT error recovery is set at 0 (infinite). This is viewable via HDAT2 and a dos boot. When you load OpenSolaris and run smartctl to