On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Paul Kraus <p...@kraus-haus.org> wrote: > What do people like today for 7x24 operation SATA drives? I am > willing to consider 2TB, but don't really need the extra capacity (but > if that is all the market offers, I don't have to use the other half > :-) I found a Seagate Constellation ES 2 TB for about $350 (which is > more than I really want to spend, I got the ES2 1TB drives for about > $130 when I bought them). I have been sticking with Seagate as I am > comfortable with them, but am willing to look at others. The only > thing I insist on is that the drive be rated for 7x24 operation.
I got uncomfortable with the way Seagate handled that whole 1.5TB firmware issue, and then there was a recent crop of 3TB drives that had issues, but those were consumer, not 7x24 drives. I would take a look at Hitachi, since that's what Sun put in my x4540. I've also had some luck with the samsungs. One interesting thing I saw (I have 4x3TB samsungs and 3x 3TB seagates in one zfs pool) is that the SMART counters climb very fast for 2 or 3 of the counters. I don't recall which offhand, but if you have a chance, I'd like to validate if it's my drive, or if it's normal. Thanks. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
