On Friday 10 June 2005 1:25 am, Tim Moore wrote:
> The SD's are 100% duty cycle, 24x7, 1M hour MTBF commercial SATA II drives,
> whereas the JD's are SATA I with a "desktop" rating and a 'designed for
> Microsoft Windows' cert. Why WD would trade a commercial drive for a
> desktop drive?
Dunno, but they did, altho the disks back were 'recertified', not new. As to
the 1M MTBF rating, I also dunno. I got 9 're-certified SD drives' back from
WD and 2 of them (oops, make that 3 of them) have failed in the past 24
hours, which points to some underlying problem in the system. It's on a UPS
which should condition the voltage. The drives that went out were on
different ports and one of them was direct-connected, not via a hotswap cage
(due to previous suspicions about the hotswap cage).
Any insight into this failure rate would be appreciated. About to open
another support call to 3ware...
> Besides that I've used 3Ware controllers since the 6400 and have had zero
> problems with anything.
I guess I'm the reason they say YMMV. :)
> The gui tool is nice but not suited to production
> use.
It sounded like his problem was a one-off change in structure which the gui
was well suited for.
Unless you're going to script it into maint mode, the gui seems to have
benefits.
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Cheers, Harry
Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@xxxxxxxxx
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