On Mon, May 27, 2013 18:38, Andrea Bolandrina wrote: > Hi Tudor. > > All disks I have report the same size, even though they are different > brand/model Discussion on this list in the past would suggest the manufacturers have agreed to make equal sized drives in future, so this shouldn't really be an issue for 2TB drives or larger. > If the 2 WD RED bahave as they should I might buy some more as soon as > the others fail, > otherwise I will try something different (that's why I want to keep > the system as flexible as possible). Why not just put a 2G swap partition at the end of each drive, if needed, you can reduce the swap partition on the new drive if it is a bit smaller than the rest, you have up to 2G of flexibility.... (or 1G etc..) This means the space isn't wasted overall, but there is no issue if you need to make it a bit smaller/larger/etc... > The 2 samsung SMART infos are already "screaming for help" and, > actually, a third Samsung already failed last year. > Terrible drives, terrible support from Samsung that replaced the drive > (still under warranty) with a refurbished one that failed within 10 > days from arrival. Personally, apart from a "batch" of WD Caviar Black drives that all failed within a week, of had really good experience with them, and also the WD RE4 drives.... I haven't yet tried the red, but would be interested to hear how you go. Regards, Adam -- 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
