Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:17 -0700 From: "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: Shamim Shahriar <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <CADV=szWyOqcRccG82DoxXRSFBfL8te1RVTS-t%2Bj0va%2BTDY8y9Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com>
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I have an older 74g western dig raptor. I have done perhaps 200 system builds on it. I have been debating a newer bigger version of that. Brian On Sep 13, 2016 12:13 PM, "Shamim Shahriar" <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/09/2016 19:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I had a hard-drive crash last night, GPT corrupted, don't know whether > it's a software fault (NetBSD-current 7.99.15 i386) or hardware. > > > > Main question is what kind of hard drive is used for heavy compiling in > FreeBSD, base system and ports, what might be used to create packages and > base-system downloadable images. > > > > Using a USB-stick installation of FreeBSD including Rod Smith's gdisk, I > could possibly restore the partition table, assuming hard drive is not > going bad. It's a Western Digital Green 3 TB dating to May 2013. > Experience with Western Digital makes me very afraid of "green" hard drives. > > > > I seem to be able to access the partitions, from the USB-stick > installation of FreeBSD but not from NetBSD or Linux System Rescue CD, or > at least the partition mounted as /home, read-only, would want to rsync > that user data to an external USB stick or other drive, before doing > anything that could mess the hard disk further and destroy my user data. I > have rsync on that USB-stick installation of FreeBSD. I need to fear that > any kind of write to that hard drive, even to restore the partition table, > could push my data further to destruction if it's a hardware fault. > > > > After updating my backup with rsync, I could try to restore the GPT from > backup at end of disk; I also found a backup copy of GPT data on the USB > stick. > > > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > My personal preference is WD Red (and NOT the Pro, just RED). It looks > excellent on paper, and so far I have not had any failure on them > (fingers crossed). The oldest I have is around 3 years old, used in a > server, and zfs shows no data error. > > Drives I will definitely stay away from (at least for the next 5 years) > is Seagate -- specially barracuda and the like. Lost several of them as > they approached their 13th month life time -- similar use case (and > sometimes even less). > > But I'm sure there are others in this list who has run extensive tests > on HDDs and can recommend something better with practical data to back > their findings. > > Hope this helps. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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