Den 19. des. 2015 01:01, skrev Dale:
...
> It sounds like the heads are doing random
> reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily. Thing is,
> there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop. All the
> drives should be basically idle.
...
> Model=ST3000DM001
What kind o
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 08:28:30 +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I think USB 3.0 is cheaper and more common.
> > Only seen the occasional eSATA port on laptops and afaik, eSATA
> > requires a seperate powersupply. USB can supply the power for the
> > drive as well.
> USB hard drives, in my experie
> I think USB 3.0 is cheaper and more common.
> Only seen the occasional eSATA port on laptops and afaik, eSATA requires a
> seperate powersupply. USB can supply the power for the drive as well.
> Joost
USB hard drives, in my experience, come with and require AC power adapter, are
not powered b
"J. Roeleveld" wrote:
> >Since about three years I'm using four 3TB WD red HDs as storage
> >drives
> >
> >and I bought two more some months ago. No failures with all of these
> >drives so far.
> >
> >--
> >Regards
> >wabe
>
> I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a little over 3 years.
> O
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:56 AM, wrote:
> >
> > I was never able to get either zfs or btrfs to work correctly, zfs was
> > very vulnerable -- I forgot to export a zfs on a usb drive and got an
> > enless loop of processes untill I rebooted. Btrfs never did work for
> > me
On Saturday, December 19, 2015 08:02:12 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Thomas Mueller
>
> wrote:
> > Now I am considering an external hard drive with eSATA, more suitable for
> > OS installation (Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Haiku?) than USB 3.0. Only
> > brand I find is Mi
On Saturday, December 19, 2015 10:12:22 AM Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a little over 3 years.
> > Only had 1 failure (Smart complaining) in that time.
> >
> > I find that decent odds.
> >
> > Joost
>
> I bought a WD Green 3 TB hard drive in May 2011, warran
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:56 AM, wrote:
>
> I was never able to get either zfs or btrfs to work correctly, zfs was
> very vulnerable -- I forgot to export a zfs on a usb drive and got an
> enless loop of processes untill I rebooted. Btrfs never did work for
> me, I created a pool, copied my roo
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Thomas Mueller
wrote:
>
> Now I am considering an external hard drive with eSATA, more suitable for OS
> installation (Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Haiku?) than USB 3.0. Only brand I
> find is Micronet Fantom (GForce), or use Seagate NAS hard drive in an
> enclosure
> I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a little over 3 years.
> Only had 1 failure (Smart complaining) in that time.
> I find that decent odds.
> Joost
I bought a WD Green 3 TB hard drive in May 2011, warranty was then 3 years. It
went bad with errors after 34 months.
I was able to get a
On 19 December 2015 04:05:25 CET, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
>Dale wrote:
>
>> I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and
>> some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I
>> don't have to buy pacemakers. :/
>
>It seems that many many years ago HDs w
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Dale wrote:
> >
> > I also found this after the reply from Ian.
> >
> > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/
> >
> > No wonder they had it on sale. Heck, why didn't they just say it was a
> > good door stop instead of a ha
> The thing is, EVERY
manufacturer has had drives like these. Well, the Hitachi drives
Backblaze goes on about would be an exception
you've clearly never heard of DeathStars if you think Hitachi is an exception...
-John
Sent from my phone
Rich Freeman wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:49 PM,
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> I also found this after the reply from Ian.
>
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/
>
> No wonder they had it on sale. Heck, why didn't they just say it was a
> good door stop instead of a hard drive???
>
Yeah, the only reason I
When I get a chance next time I'm at work I'll attach a link to the piles
of dead seagates I've been collecting for target practice.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 22:09 wrote:
> Ian Bloss wrote:
>
> > I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
> > recommend getting your money b
Ian Bloss wrote:
> I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
> recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand.
>
> I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for
> their failure rate.
A friend of mine is using Seagate ES drives sinc
Dale wrote:
> I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and
> some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I
> don't have to buy pacemakers. :/
It seems that many many years ago HDs were more reliable then today.
I have five 4GB IBM SCSI HDs and one
Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100.
> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click
> or a metallic type sound. It sounds like the heads
If it's under warranty you can return it because it's clicking. You just
have to be "persuasive"...
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 20:16 Dale wrote:
> Adam Carter wrote:
> > See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV
> > to sda etc each time)
> >
> > smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | eg
Adam Carter wrote:
> See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV
> to sda etc each time)
>
> smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | egrep
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
It's currently running the test on mo
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>
>>
>> That would likely work. I've also used a water hose to do that on
>> cars. I'm not sure how well that will work since the drives are only
>> like a inch apart. With the screwdriver I might even be able to feel
>> it. It's not very loud but I c
Dale wrote:
> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100.
> >> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> >> basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a so
See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV to
sda etc each time)
smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | egrep
'(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100.
>> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
>> basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click
>> or
I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand.
I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for their
failure rate.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:41 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale
On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100.
> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click
> or a metallic type sound. It s
Ian Bloss wrote:
>
> Is it a seagate?
>
>
It would be a Seagate, yes. From SMART:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model: ST3000DM001-1ER166
You know some history on this thing?
Dale
:-) :-)
Is it a seagate?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:02 Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100.
> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click
> or a
Howdy,
I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100.
Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click
or a metallic type sound. It sounds like the heads are doing random
reads
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