On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:59, Darryl wrote: > good thing i asked about the seagates... i always thought they > were highly regarded. I know that everyone has their own opinions, > but this is still quite informative. I've always been partial to > seagate and WD, for not other reason than, thats all i've had :)
Just to be clear, I don't think Seagate is doing any worse than any other vendor, and (given a small sample size) my WD's have had a higher infant mortality rate so far. The only thing making me chose WD for ZFS is TLDR: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+WDTLER.EXE since Seagate just came out with a low-power drive. If somebody can show me how to tune a Barracuda like a WD, I'd probably switch back. If you can spend the money for an 'enterprise' Seagate this isn't an issue for you. Just the idea of what a hard drive is admits a bad idea (spinning rust-coated glass at 5000+ RPM with micrometer tolerances); it's just better than the other options right now. Hard drives fail. All of them. We get to bet on when and why, and employ things like ZFS to help deal with it. Even ZFS is helpless against small-odds events, though - sooner or later somebody will have 3 drives of their raidz2 fail over the same night. -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
