I've got two 2T drives (WD20EARS) and an old motherboard for a backup server (not an easy time for me, but my old backup system, which supports a few people, is running out of space). I plan to use raid to mirror them. Actually I've got four of these drives, two for another computer.
What do you recommend for pretesting these huge new harddrives? Ongoing monitoring? What about 4k sectors? Is ZFS so great and wonderful that it is worth running BSD (instead of Linux) on a backup server? FYI: newegg is currently shipping each drive wrapped in bubble wrap in a 2"x6"x10" boxes. The drives are 1" thick, so that is 1/2" of bubble wrap on each face of the drive. Anyone care to look up Western Digital's recommendations? Let's not pollute this particular thread with chatter about backup software. -- Anthony Carrico
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