Hi Constantin, It's good to hear your setup with the Samsung drives is working well. Which model/revision are they?
My personal preference is to use drives of the same model & revision. However, in order to help ensure that the drives will perform reliably, I prefer to do a fair amount of research first, in order to find drives that are reported by many users to be working reliably in their systems. I did this for my current WD7500AAKS drives and have never seen even one read/write or checksum error in 2 years - they have worked flawlessly. As a crude method of checking reliability of any particular drive, I take a look at newegg.com and see the percentage of users rating the drives with 4 or 5 stars, and read the problems listed to see what kind of problems the drives may have. If you read the WDC links I list in the first post above, there does appear to be some problem that many users are experiencing with the most recent revisions of the WD Green 'EADS' drives and also the new Green models in the 'EARS' range. I don't know the cause of the problem though. I did wonder if the problems people are experiencing might be caused by spindown/power-saving features of the drives, which might cause a long delay before data is accessible again after spin-up, but this is just a guess. For now, I am looking at the 1.5TB Samsung HD154UI (revision 1AG01118 ?), or possibly the 2TB Samsung HD203WI when more user ratings are available. Cheers, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
