On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:40, Luke Scharf wrote: > All drives suck. Use RAID. :-)
So true. I've been using Seagate Barracudas mostly because of their warranty, and they've been generally good, but we got one server in where 4 of the 8 drives failed in the first two months, at which point we called Seagate and they were happy to swap out all 8 drives for us. I suspect a bad lot, and even found some other complaints about the lot on Google. Current Barracudas are nice - some of the first 'parallel recording' ones ran really really (really) hot. I recently tried out a batch of Western Digital 'green' drives, and 1/4 was riddled with bad sectors (ZFS found these for me). I do think I'll be going with WD's for a big ZFS server build, though, since you can tune down the bad block retries on their "desktop" drives, and I don't know that there's a way to do that with Seagate's. The WD Velociraptors look really nice for ZFS cache drives, but it looks like that might be a bit not-quite-ready at this point (failures appear to hurt quite a bit), so I'll save two slots for a pair down the road. -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
