Hi! First thing is to let you know I am about to go into a meeting, and am using my Blackberry to reply to you. So if this message gets clipped I will need to pick up my response later. Also my regular email address is [email protected], so if you reply to this email I may not see it for a while.
That said, I found the Seagate Freeagent HDDs do go to sleep by default after 15 minutes of inactivity. But, the disk management software let's you turn off or alter the sleep timeout value. However, if you are connected via eSATA their software can't see the drive to make any changes. I know USB interface will work, and I am certain Firewire will also, for any such changes. Once you do alter the sleep timeout time (or turn it off) the settings are saved in the HDD circuitry, so you can connect as eSATA, or use with Linux or Mac OS X with no issues with the HDD going to sleep and not coming back without a reboot. I did find the Seagate Freeagent Extreme 1.5Tb HDD is transferring files (with Win XP Disk Compression and no Disk Indexing) far faster than the 750Gb Freeagent - both connected via eSATA. Pretty surprising, but I'll take it. I have done no formal speed comparisons. I base my observation on the fact it would take 4 days to back up the 750Gb Freeagents, and only 3 days when all I changed was swapping in the 1.5Tb Extreme units. The 750Gb units were recently defragmented, so that was not a likely cause for the performance bump. I am guessing density of storage on the platter is partly responsible for the performance bump. All I know is they are performing nicely. Got to scoot. Please feel free to post this on ProFox if you feel it would be worth sharing with others. Further info is for the asking if there is anything else you need me to check out. Gil Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "KAM.covad" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:43:06 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [NF] FreeNAS was SCSI drives and VFP data tables I am interested in your experience with the server and sata drives. Seagate has new firmware for their 1.5TB drives (5 year warrantee) that supposedly fixes the problems they had - they would 'go to sleep' for 30 seconds now and then. I am considering building a RAID5 NAS using FreeNAS to avoid problems with Linux/windows, etc. I would install 5 Seagate 1.5 TB drives for data and boot from a USB drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gil Hale To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:05 AM Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables Unfortunately with Linux I found (supposedly) I can't have RAID5, so I am opting for RAID1, and the eSATA card supports hot swapping. So I have a 3rd 250Gb hot swap HDD for the boot drive set in case one HDD fails, and a 3rd 1.5Tg Seagate Freeagent Extreme external eSATA/USB2/Firewire HDD for the same reason. Warranties be damned if I have to wait a week to get a replacement part <g>. I never ran RAID1 before, so this will be interesting from both a performance and failure recovery perspective (I will test the hot swap and data striping capabilities before putting the Server into production). Oh, setup is going to be interesting also as I plan to run the Server under Ubuntu Server v-8.04 (may 8.10, have not decided yet). The Server OS options from Dell were Windows, Red Hat or Suse - but not Ubuntu. If I run into a pinch with Ubuntu I guess it is back to Suse for that one machine, which is fine although it does have an annual fee. Could be worse, I could have had Windows shoved down my throat (again). --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/026001c980af$19083450$8600a...@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. Report [OT] Abuse: http://leafe.com/reportAbuse/026001c980af$19083450$8600a...@w2k3s02 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/53161257-1233241157-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-3386118...@bxe204.bisx.prod.on.blackberry ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
