Is it just the Western Digital drives or is it across brands? I was considering sometime in the future going SATA. WD was the brand i was going for too :-x
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 04:21, Shannon B. Roddy wrote: > Actually, I finally had a chance to look at the article Tim mentioned > below, and it looks like ext3 is not a bad option if I change the mount > options to writeback. I think I will try that and see what happens. > Unfortunately I already had one of the 18 disks fail in this thing. > They are Western Digital 250 GB SATA drives. Just in case anyone is > wondering, I have not been having very good luck at all with the SATA > drives lately. Much higher failure rate out of the box than I would > like. The only good thing is that they seem to be failing in the first > 72 hours during the burn in period and not weeks down the road. > > Shannon > > Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > I think I am going to go with ext3 just for time sake. Looks like > > reiser would have given me about 50-100 gigs more space, but it is not > > too much of an issue. > > it is more important that I get this thing up and running than it be > > perfectly optimized. > > > > Shannon > > > > Tim Fournet wrote: > > > >> Found this article, looks pretty well organized. The impression I get is > >> that in some cases, Reiser can be much faster, but ext3 is a safer bet. > >> http://www.gurulabs.com/ext3-reiserfs.html > >> > >> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:10, Shannon Roddy wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I have two 1.5 terabyte file systems that I am getting ready to > >>> serve out via NFS (two 8 port 3ware SATA raid cards). I have a > >>> question though: Is there any advantage to formatting this with say > >>> reiser over ext3, etc? XFS? Any opinions? Hard benchmark numbers? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Shannon > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> General mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> General mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
