Hi all
We have a few servers with WD Black (and some green) drives on Super Micro
systems. We've seen both drives work well with direct attach, but with LSI
controllers and Super Micro's SAS expanders, well, that's another story. With
those SAS expanders, we've seen numerous drives being
On Aug 6, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
Hi all
We have a few servers with WD Black (and some green) drives on Super Micro
systems. We've seen both drives work well with direct attach, but with LSI
controllers and Super Micro's SAS expanders, well, that's another story.
In my experience, SATA drives behind SAS expanders just don't work.
They fail in the manner you
describe, sooner or later. Use SAS and be happy.
Funny thing is Hitachi and Seagate drives work stably, whereas WD drives tend
to fail rather quickly
Vennlige hilsener / Best regards
roy
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Roy
On Aug 6, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
In my experience, SATA drives behind SAS expanders just don't work.
They fail in the manner you
describe, sooner or later. Use SAS and be happy.
Funny thing is Hitachi and Seagate drives work stably, whereas WD drives tend
to fail
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 06:45:05PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
Have anyone here used WD drives with LSI controllers (3801/3081/9211)
with Super Micro machines? Any success stories?
I'm using 4 x WD RE3 1TB drives with a Supermicro X7SB3 mobo with a
builtin LSI 1068E controller and a
I'm using 4 x WD RE3 1TB drives with a Supermicro X7SB3 mobo with a
builtin LSI 1068E controller and a CSE-SAS-833TQ SAS backplane.
Have run ZFS with both Solaris and FreeBSD without a problem for a
couple years now. Had one drive go bad, but it was caught early by
running periodic scrubs.
