hi robin
nice to meet you here again - I've been subscribed to this list for 1.5 hour today when your post made it into my inbox! :)
Small world, eh?!
Robin Bowes wrote:
I've had loads of problems with MaxLine II 250GB SATA drives and wouldn't buy them again.
I bought 9 (8+1 for RAID5) 6B300S0 300GB Maxtor DM10 a month ago and they seem to run fine - though I want to test them with powermax this week to see if there could be problems.
Based on my experiences, I would strongly recommend running them 7+1+1, i.e. configuring a spare diskl
I'll need as well to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10 and patch it with the libata patch to make smartctl happy again (it won't work with SATA drives yet).
I haven't done that yet - I prefer to stick with release FC3 kernels (don't want to get back into rolling my own - takes up too much time!)
But as long as they keep RMA'ing them I'm happy to stick with them for now.
I'm afraid that the warranty period won't be extended by the replacement drive(s).
Ah, that could be a problem. I'll have to review the situation in a couple of years.
regards from snowy and cold switzerland
Well, it's not too warm in the UK at the moment!
R. -- http://robinbowes.com
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