Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] read/write hard drive parameters

2021-05-11 Thread Michelle
Hi Tony, Many thanks for the links. I can fortunately report that "format" reports correctly for the 8tb drives. The SMR drives stopped at 6TB, and WD faced a bit of criticism over their decision to ship those in their RED lineup, so I'm not expecting these to be the issue in this case as these

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] read/write hard drive parameters

2021-05-11 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 06:43 +0100, Michelle wrote: > I'm having awful luck with WD 8Tb red drives. > > Mirror configuration, ZFS is failing the drives on sustained writes. > RAIDZ seems to be more forgiving. > > I've sent one drive back and have two more under RMA, but so far my > crude testing s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] read/write hard drive parameters

2021-05-11 Thread Michelle
I'm having awful luck with WD 8Tb red drives. Mirror configuration, ZFS is failing the drives on sustained writes. RAIDZ seems to be more forgiving. I've sent one drive back and have two more under RMA, but so far my crude testing seems to indicate that this is a configuration issue generic to th