Hello, while browsing around today I stumbled across "Seagate Pipeline HD" HDDs lineup (i.e. ST2000VM002). Did any ZFS users have any experience with them? http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/pipeline/ http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/sv35_series/#tTabContentSpecifications
Marketing talk poses them nicely for home-NASes: "Cool. Quiet. Low Power. Pipeline HD hard drives are designed to deliver reliable 24*7 operation – optimized for low–power consumption, quiet operation and smooth video streaming. 24*7 operational profile to meet the always–on demands on the DVR market" They seem relatively consrvatively spec'ed for today - SATA 3Gb/s, ranged from 250Gb to 2Tb, 5900RPM, caches 8MB or 64MB, 12-13ms seek times, but they can operate in environments up to 75 degC and with AFR of 0.55%, and seemingly have small sectors. Apparently there's a newer lineup "SV35 Series" with a higher AFR (about 0.80%), but faster (7200RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 8.5ms-9.5ms seek times) and larger (1-3Tb). Possibly also small sectors ("Guaranteed Sectors 5,860,533,168" for the 3Tb model ST3000VX000). Do any home-NAS or enterprise (surveillance?) users on the list have experience with such drives? Would they be good or bad for a home-NAS of about 8+ disks in raidz3? Thanks, //Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss