Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-13 Thread Jacques
I just tried as well on osol134. I have the Western Digital Caviar black drives that still support tler (the older ones). Same result: no changes occur. This is on a 3420 ibex peak chipset Device Model: WDC WD1001FALS-00E8B0 Firmware: 05.00K05 $ pfexec ./smartctl -d sat,12

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-13 Thread Jacques
I did some more research and the findings were very interesting. I bought an Samsung HD103SJ (1tb 7200rpm with two 500gb platters). When you boot the drive cold, SCT error recovery is set at 0 (infinite). This is viewable via HDAT2 and a dos boot. When you load OpenSolaris and run smartctl to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Mexico
I use the RE4's at work on the storage server, but at home I use the consumer 1TB green drives. My system [2009.06] uses an Intel Atom 330 based motherboard, 4 gigs of non-ecc ram, a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller with 5 1TB Western Digital [WD10EARS] drives in a raidz1. There are many

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:05:14PM +1000, Emily Grettel wrote: Hello, I've decided to replace my WD10EADS and WD10EARS drives as I've checked the SMART values and they've accrued some insanely high numbers for the load/unload counts (40K+ in 120 days on one!). I was leaning

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Emily Grettel emilygrettelis...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I've decided to replace my WD10EADS and WD10EARS drives as I've checked the SMART values and they've accrued some insanely high numbers for the load/unload counts (40K+ in 120 days on one!). I was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Joe S
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Emily Grettel emilygrettelis...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm wondering what other people are using, even though the Green series has let me down, I'm still a Western Digital gal. What do people already use on their enterprise level NAS's? Any good Seagates? FWIW,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Emily Grettel emilygrettelis...@hotmail.com wrote: I've decided to replace my WD10EADS and WD10EARS drives as I've checked the SMART values and they've accrued some insanely high numbers for the load/unload counts (40K+ in 120 days on one!). Running WDIDLE.EXE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, May 12 at 8:45, Freddie Cash wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Emily Grettel [1]emilygrettelis...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, Â I've decided to replace my WD10EADS and WD10EARS drives as I've checked the SMART values and they've accrued some insanely high

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Miles Nordin
eg == Emily Grettel emilygrettelis...@hotmail.com writes: eg What do people already use on their enterprise level NAS's? For a SOHO NAS similar to the one you are running, I mix manufacturer types within a redundancy set so that a model-wide manufacturing or firmware glitch like the ones of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Miles Nordin
bh == Brandon High bh...@freaks.com writes: bh From what I've read, the Hitachi and Samsung drives both bh support CCTL, which is in the ATA-8 spec. There's no way to bh toggle it on from OpenSolaris (yet) and it doesn't persist bh through reboot so it's not really ideal. bh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Carson Gaspar
Miles Nordin wrote: bh == Brandon High bh...@freaks.com writes: bh From what I've read, the Hitachi and Samsung drives both bh support CCTL, which is in the ATA-8 spec. There's no way to bh toggle it on from OpenSolaris (yet) and it doesn't persist bh through reboot so it's not