Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2009-12-31 Thread Willy
> 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. Are you sure about this? I thought these consumer level drives would try indefinitely to carry out its operation. Even Sams

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-06 Thread Willy
Wow, that is cheap for an "enterprise class" drive. A little over 1/3 of the reviews at newegg rated this drive as very poor http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16822148295 Hopefully, they've fixed whatever issues with your drives :-) Be sure to do the firmware update h

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-20 Thread Willy
To those concerned about this issue, there is a patched version of smartmontools that enables the querying and setting of TLER/ERC/CCTL values (well, except for recent desktop drives from Western Digitial). It's available here http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/projects/erc/ Unfortunately, smartmo

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2010-01-22 Thread Willy
I have 4 of the HD154UI Samsung Ecogreens, and was able to set the error reporting time using HDAT2. The settings would survive a warm reboot, but not a powercycle. I too would like to thank you for your blog. It provided a lot guidance for me in setting up OS and ZFS for my home NAS. -- Thi