On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 07:45:31PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Might this be the SATA drives taking too long to reallocate bad
> > sectors? This is a common problem "desktop" drives have, they will
> > stop and basically focus on reallocating the bad sector as long as it
> > takes, which
On Aug 6, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> In my experience, SATA drives behind SAS expanders just don't work.
>> They "fail" in the manner you
>> describe, sooner or later. Use SAS and be happy.
>
> Funny thing is Hitachi and Seagate drives work stably, whereas WD drives tend
>
> Might this be the SATA drives taking too long to reallocate bad
> sectors? This is a common problem "desktop" drives have, they will
> stop and basically focus on reallocating the bad sector as long as it
> takes, which causes the raid setup to time out the operation and flag
> the drive as faile
This might be related to your issue:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2010/09/western-digital-re3-series-sata-drives.html
On Saturday, August 6, 2011, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> In my experience, SATA drives behind SAS expanders just don't work.
>> They "fail" in the manner you
>> describe, sooner or
WD's drives have gotten better the last few years but their quality is still
not very good. I doubt they test their drives extensively for heavy duty server
configs, particularly since you don't see them inside any of the major server
manufactures' boxes.
Hitachi in particular does well in mas
