>If I was building my own system again, I would prefer not to go with consumer >harddrives. >I had a raidz pool containing eight drives on a snv108 system, after >rebooting, four of >the eight drives was so broken they could not be seen by format, let alone the >zpool they >belonged to. > >This was with Samsung HD103UJ revision 1112 and 1113 disks. No matter what >kind of hotspares, >raidz2 or 3-way mirror would have saved me, so it was RMA the drives, buy some >new and restore >from backup. The controller was LSI1068E - A cheap USB-to-SATA adapter could >see them, but with >masive stalls and errors. These disks was at the moment the cheapest 1 TB >disks avaliable, I >understand why now.
I can attest to the same experience with very nearly the same hardware. My next non critical system will not use consumer HD's either. The stalling issue seemed to vary with different hardware but left my chasing my tail endlessly. I am sure Seagate has a bulletin with my name on it... jlc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
