> 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
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
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
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.
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Thi
