hi ya most of the disks that are dead and sitting on my desks are ibm deskstars ( 20,30,40 GB ) and the other batch is similarly sized WesternDigital cavalier(?)... - have a couple WD 120GB disks w/ 8MB disk cache.. ( so far no problem with it ) and those disk failures are 10-20% disk failures at one company that tried to save a few $$$ by buying WDs... ibm just screwed up their manufacturing/qa processes w/ the deskstars ( now i just buy seagate/maxtors in those sizes ) jury still out for me on the 8MB cache WD 120s btw... add a cooling fan for each 7200rpm disk c ya alvin -- i'd use 3 disks as raid5 ... - when one disk dies... it continues in degraded mode... ( you can add the replacement disk ... and it will resync - but you lose backup disks ( need another system for backups ) -- if using 2 disks as mirroring - when one disk dies... it continues in degraded mode... ( you can add the replacement disk ... and it will resync and you have a backup of it too - i dont use "spare disks" .... i rather have a 2nd system that is mirror of the first set of "important data" ( usually warm swap w/ new ip# to retire the flaky/dying system w/ the warm-backup ) On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, David U. wrote: > Hi friends, > > I was just wondering what the most current opinions were with regard to 5400 > vs 7200 RPM drives. > > Also, have people been happy with the Western Digital 100gig Special Edition > drives? > > What are other people using? > > fwiw, I'm planning on running three WD1000JB's. Two of them mirrored and the > third as a backup until needed as a spare. This is for a remote colo so in > the event a drive dies I need lots of time to be able to get a new drive in, > so raid5 is out. (I can't only fit in three drives) > > Thanks, > David U. > > -- > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the > world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
