<p>I just took a look at customer feedback on this drive here. 36% rate with one star, which I would consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the descriptions:</p>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=22-148-412&SortField=3&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&Page=1&Keywords=%28keywords%29";>Seagate Barracuda LP ST31500541AS 1.5TB 5900 RPM</a> <p>Is this the model you mean? If so, I might look at some other alternative possibilities.</p> <p>So, we have apparently problematic newest revision WD Green 'EADS' and 'EARS' models, and an apparently problematic Seagate model described here.</p> <p>That leaves Hitachi and Samsung.</p> <p>I had past 'experiences' with post IBM 'deathstar' Hitachi drives, so I think for now I shall be looking into the Samsungs, as from the customer reviews it seems these could be the most reliable consumer-priced high-capacity drives available right now.</p> <p>It does seem that it is proving to be a big challenge for the drive manufacturers to produce reliable high-capacity consumer-priced drives. Maybe this is Samsung's opportunity to prove how good they are?</p> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152175&Tpk=HD154UI";>Samsung 1.5TB HD154UI 3-platter drive</a> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152202&Tpk=HD203WI";>Samsung 2TB HD203WI 4-platter drive</a> -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
