Couple months, nope. I guess there is this DOS utility provided by WD that allows you change TLER settings having TLER disabled can be problem, faulty disks timeout randomly and zfs doesn't always want to mark them as failed, sometimes it does though.
Yours Markus Kovero -----Original Message----- From: Tristan Ball [mailto:tristan.b...@leica-microsystems.com] Sent: 11. syyskuuta 2009 10:04 To: Markus Kovero; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: RE: [zfs-discuss] alternative hardware configurations for zfs How long have you had them in production? Were you able to adjust the TLER settings from within solaris? Thanks, Tristan. -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Markus Kovero Sent: Friday, 11 September 2009 5:00 PM To: Eugen Leitl; Eric Sproul; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] alternative hardware configurations for zfs We've been using caviar black 1TB with disk configurations consisting 64 disks or more. They are working just fine. Yours Markus Kovero -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl Sent: 11. syyskuuta 2009 9:51 To: Eric Sproul; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] alternative hardware configurations for zfs On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:11:49PM -0400, Eric Sproul wrote: > I would not use the Caviar Black drives, regardless of TLER settings. The RE3 > or RE4 drives would be a better choice, since they also have better vibration > tolerance. This will be a significant factor in a chassis with 20 spinning drives. Yes, I'm aware of the issue, and am using 16x RE4 drives in my current box right now (which I unfortunately had to convert to CentOS 5.3 for Oracle/ custom software compatibility reasons). I've made very bad experiences with Seagate 7200.11 in RAID in the past. Thanks for your advice against Caviar Black. > > Do you think above is a sensible choice? > > All your other choices seem good. I've used a lot of Supermicro gear with good > results. The very leading-edge hardware is sometimes not supported, but I've been using http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DAi.cfm in above box. > anything that's been out for a while should work fine. I presume you're going > for an Intel Xeon solution-- the peripherals on those boards a a bit better > supported than the AMD stuff, but even the AMD boards work well. Yes, dual-socket quadcore Xeon. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
