On 10/8/13 5:08 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Saso Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/8/13 4:20 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: >>> they're SATA drives, Western DIgital 4000 FYYZ drives (the RE4 ones) ... >> >> These are enterprise SATA drives, so you *should* be okay. >> >>> the hardware is bought ... as SATA drives these ones work the best we've >>> tried, the HighPoint should have worked in Linux/FreeBSD ... and it does >>> if we put in a random bunch of old Seagates, but the shiny new WD's fall >>> over until the machine is rebooted. >>> >>> I'm willing to take any advice on a card/solution to get the SATA drives >>> working, even if the OS turns out to be non-solaris, within the limits >>> of most of the procured hardware. >> >> The LSI 9201 16i should work well as long as we're talking direct-attach >> here. You're not running an expander here, I hope. > > Direct attach SATA drives are always fine.
I was referring to more than just the drive's behavior on the bus. Enterprise SATA drives have significantly better behavior under drive failure scenarios, so you're significantly less likely to get things like drives suddenly going quiet for no apparent reason, etc. plus they are typically built with lower-density platters, which means that there's less of a chance of getting random bit corruption (just compare the chunkiness of an enterprise SATA drive to the skinny posture of a consumer grade one - usually with half as many physical platters). Cheers, -- Saso ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
