Thanks for the note - I'd also be interested in what drives people people use that seem to be robust and which are having problems. The 3ware tech that I spoke to recommended the WD-SD series, but a local senior sysadmin has warned his entire dept off WD drives for the reasons I've mentioned. He rec'ed Seagate (5 year warr) and Hitachi. So far the only good thing that I can say about WD is that their return policy has been relatively smooth (tho they smoothly keep returning bad drives :( ) I personally buy IBM (now Hitachi I think) and Seagate and have always avoided WD as being cheap and cheesy. 5 years ago when I was a sysadmin, I was replacing WD at probably 5 times the rate of anything else. It was probably strongly influenced by the fact that more people were using them than the others but I don't think I've ever had an IBM or seagate 3.5" die (have a teetering stack of working ones that just got too small to bother with). I figured that since WD was still in business (tho seeming always on the verge of going bust) their quality must have improved, but maybe not. Happy to be contradicted. If there's a 'Consumer's Reports' for HD reliability on the web, I couldn't find it. Maybe it's time to set one up - with SMART disk records, it's possible to get more reliable runtime records and data than just the usual single point or small data set that individuals can provide (and you can bet that most vendors aren't going to make their failures public..). Perhaps something like the CDDB, where a you can run an applet on a cronjob that will upload your disk's SMART data cache to a remote DB on a regular basis, so the millions of disks out there can be profiled. Hmmm - sounds like a good undergrad project. Did someone say Summer of Code? (http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html) hjm On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:33 pm, Mike Hardy wrote: > Not that I wish bad luck on anyone, but I always enjoy reading about > problems others have had and how they solved them, so I don't have to > learn the hard way. Hopefully your situation gets sorted out. -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@xxxxxxxxx <<plain text preferred>> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
