On 18 June 2014 11:19, Dag Nygren <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2014 13:36:44 Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Before going any further, check the TLER/ERC support for these drives. >> >> Both Seagate ST1000DM0003 don't have that: >> Warning: device does not support SCT Error Recovery Control command >> >> The Toshiba DT01ACA100 seems to have, but disabled: >> SCT Error Recovery Control: >> Read: Disabled >> Write: Disabled >> >> I couldn't find any specs with specific details on this feature for >> the Toshiba, and i'm not sure if it's safe to issue smartctl -l >> scterc,70,70 on a drive thay may not support it. If it's disabled as >> an incentive to buy more expensive drives, will the drive just ignore >> this command or will it decide to roast? >> >> Are there any - recommended - consumer-grade drives out there that do >> support TLER? I was going for 1TB@7200, but that can change. I started >> disliking Seagate after a ST31000528AS died on me. They bought Maxtor >> a long time ago and recently bought Samsung's disk division. I've had >> no qualms with Toshiba. I'm not so sure on WD, they used to be less >> that good; and haven't tried Hitachi. What say you? > > Just love my HGST 4 TB drives. The first ones that haven't > developed any pending/remapped sectors during the 9 months > they have been in 24/7 use. Previously tried different Seagates, with > constant problems (And yes - Had the SCT turned on). Also tested a WD red, > but saw similar symptoms developing and so degraded that to a storage > disk for my boy... > HGST was some 20€ more expensive and hard to get here but definitely > worth it. > > YMMV > > Dag > > -- > 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 If we're comparing drives, my 8x WD20EARS / EARX have been spinning for years. 2 drives just failed after ~3.4 years uptime (24/7) and over 400,000 head parkings. They had weekly SMART self-test and monthly RAID6 scrubs, and a few unexpected power losses. Good value. But YMMV. 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
