[zfs-discuss] Sun X4500 disk drives

2010-05-12 Thread Doug
We have a 2006 Sun X4500 with Hitachi 500G disk drives. Its been running for over four years and just now fmadm zpool reports a disk has failed. No data was lost (RAIDZ2 + hot spares worked as expected.) But, the server is out of warranty and we have no hardware support on it. I found the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4500 disk drives

2010-05-12 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Doug d...@yahoo.com skrev: Does anyone have any bad experiences replacing a disk on an X4500 with a non-Sun Hitachi? The hdadm tool reports the write cache is enabled on all the disks. Are their any customized firmware on the Sun disks that make them safer for using write cache?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4500 disk drives

2010-05-12 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:34:28AM -0700, Doug wrote: We have a 2006 Sun X4500 with Hitachi 500G disk drives. Its been running for over four years and just now fmadm zpool reports a disk has failed. No data was lost (RAIDZ2 + hot spares worked as expected.) But, the server is out of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4500 disk drives

2010-05-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/13/10 08:55 AM, Jens Elkner wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:34:28AM -0700, Doug wrote: We have a 2006 Sun X4500 with Hitachi 500G disk drives. Its been running for over four years and just now fmadm zpool reports a disk has failed. No data was lost (RAIDZ2 + hot spares worked