Yeah, this is my main concern with moving from my cheap Linux server with no
redundancy to ZFS RAID on OpenSolaris; I don't really want to have to pay twice
as much to buy the 'enterprise' disks which appear to be exactly the same
drives with a flag set in the firmware to limit read retries, but
>From what I remember the problem with the hardware RAID controller is that the
>long delay before the drive responds causes the drive to be dropped from the
>RAID and then if you get another error on a different drive while trying to
>repair the RAID then that disk is also marked failed and you
Thanks, sounds like it should handle all but the worst faults OK then; I
believe the maximum retry timeout is typically set to about 60 seconds in
consumer drives.
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> Also, I noticed you're using 'EARS' series drives.
> Again, I'm not sure if the WD10EARS drives suffer
> from a problem mentioned in these posts, but it might
> be worth looking into -- especially the last link:
Aren't the EARS drives the first ones using 4k sectors? Does OpenSolaris
support th
