On 28 October 2012 12:15, Rainer Fügenstein <rfu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > when trying to upgrade my raid5 with 4 Western digital caviar green > 3TB drives [WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0] (3 brandnew, 1 about 4months old), > the "old" drive and one of the brand new ones failed with > unrecoverable read errors and about 70 reallocated sectors each. the > failures already occured during the initial resync after creating the > raid. > > until now I was very fond of WD caviar green drives, but after this > 50% failure rate I'm not very eager to restore data from the backup. > > what is your experience with 3TB drives, WD and others? > > (low power drives appreciated, performance is not an issue) > > tnx. > > -- > 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 Just a few days earlier, I posted on this list, with 2 WD20EARS dives failing in my RAID6 array. It doesn't matter much if you have them spinning all the time or not, with age and stress (rebuilds) they just... die, often. If you REALLY care about the data, go for enterprise drives, or at least stay away from green / eco drives. Mathias -- 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
