Am 29.03.2010 18:59, schrieb Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner: > Hi @all, > > I tested the WD20EARS at work today. They correctly report NO SCT ERC > ability (unlike WDxxEADS from November 2009 on). Trying the commands > nevertheless results in "command aborted". > > So my recommendation would be: if you need a fast large array and want > to use WD, keep enough redundancy and a cold spare. (Respectively > because I returned 2 drives to Western Digital today, too. They had > reallocated and pending sectors >100 and already dropped out of RAIDs.) > > Or use Hitachi deskstar HDS722020ALA330 - these can set ERC timeouts and > they cost about the same. We have sold about 10 times as many Hitachis > compared to WDs, but had about the same amount of defective drives. I'm sorry, the comparison is with the elder WD20EADS! Sorry... > > All the best, > Stefan > -- > 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 -- 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
