Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 24 January 2018 04:49:00 pm Lamar Owen wrote: > The 30GB Maxtor (now of course owned by > Seagate, and the source of the original Enterprise line of drives) in > the same chassis was showing no errors to speak of.  Maxtor was a good line. I bought them almost exclusively while th

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/24/2018 01:29 PM, Cowboy wrote: ... Back when I was doing that sort of thing, Seagates dropped heads, WD lost spindle bearings. ... I remember those days.  But, as Paul Harvey would have intoned, in the 'For What It's Worth' Department, I just this past fall decommissioned a Red Hat L

[RDD] HPI Errors when using Stream 0

2018-01-24 Thread Patrick
I just built a Centos 7 / Rivendell 2.18.2 system for development. I'm using an AudioScience 5611 (4 output / 2 input streams). When I try and play audio, I get the following error: Jan 24 12:12:14 rdtest rdairplay: loaded log 'Production-0124' in Main Log Jan 24 12:12:18 rdtest caed: HPI Error:

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 24 January 2018 11:41:40 am Andy Higginson wrote: > One of my rules for mirrored systems (and for that matter offline archives), > is to use drives from different manufacturers.  I know that some people don't > like this, however I work on the basis that is there is an issue with a b

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 24 January 2018 12:49:35 pm Lamar Owen wrote: > For what it's worth, the storage company Backblaze produces a quarterly > hard drive failure rate report that is publicly available.  And it *is* worth watching !! Last I looked, their current favored child was a Seagate, but not jus

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 24 January 2018 12:28:27 pm Luka Cvetko wrote: > HGST is one more to add to the list of reliable manufacturers. > Used to be. Ultra-top-of-the-line and with the $$ to go with it. Bought by WD or Toshiba, WD I think, and now are just a brand on the main line drives, with a hig

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/24/2018 11:41 AM, Andy Higginson wrote: ... I know that some people don't like this, however I work on the basis that is there is an issue with a batch of drives, then you are not going to get 2 to fail at about the same time.  You have 3 companies to make your choice from - Seagate, Tosh

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread drew Roberts
Andy, do you have a rule of thumb for how much non-partitioned space you leave on each drive? drew On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Andy Higginson wrote: > I would agree with the Linux software RAID-1 mirror. This is what I do > with a number of servers that I've set up (not just Rivendell).

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Luka Cvetko
Hello, all! > On 24 Jan 2018, at 17:41, Andy Higginson wrote: > > I would agree with the Linux software RAID-1 mirror. We started using ZFS on all servers. Another software option there. > This is what I do with a number of servers that I've set up (not just > Rivendell). One of my rules for

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

2018-01-24 Thread Andy Higginson
I would agree with the Linux software RAID-1 mirror. This is what I do with a number of servers that I've set up (not just Rivendell). One of my rules for mirrored systems (and for that matter offline archives), is to use drives from different manufacturers. I know that some people don't like