On 02/06/2012 10:24 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2012-02-07, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I understand the constraints, as I pinch pennies at home and at the >> office (I own my engineering firm). I've made do with cheap desktop >> drives that do support ERC. I got burned when Seagate dropped ERC on >> their latest desktop drives. Hitachi Deskstar is the only affordable >> model on the market that still support ERC. > > I can testify that the EARS/EADS drives can be troublesome (see my > recent threads on the list). I also found out that apparently the > flooding in Thailand is delaying all drive vendors' enterprise drives-- > they seem to be one of the few factories that make an essential part, > and their factories are all underwater. > > Have others had success with mdraid and the Deskstar drives? I wouldn't > mind saving a little money if the drives will actually work, especially > if I can get them in before April (the earliest one vendor thinks > they might be able to start building drives again). Ow. I haven't actually bought any yet... I was hoping the prices would come down before I needed to. Sounds like I'll be waiting longer than I expected. But, I reviewed the OEM documentation for the 7K3000 family, and they clearly document support for the SCT ERC commands (para 9.18.1.2). Phil -- 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
