From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 13 19:22:21 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193B3BD8A28 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:22:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@brianwhalen.net) Received: from mail-wm0-x22d.google.com (mail-wm0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AADFBAD3 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@brianwhalen.net) Received: by mail-wm0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id i130so12248835wmf.0 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=brianwhalen-net.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=3xGS3YaA8Uc/ulfpRVVNHlEH3qxZ+NkzhbJbUei5648=; b=PeEMGyzFHOAvcD1eea5Y/d3xf8DzhcM0RxcQ0DPGxeeTt8BVX/diKNW5iyciQ9FXno FiNByvFnkZweptTGOicjneKLa1e9YVi5znrdbqDrLxo+oM9E6VzEU/szVZtG4iI65tv1 gDa1dADVrez6HTFCzYwg8llksQRRT+6PEYzCELjpUJZzGgbHkyKsNa471xZrzh5j/iQF V6y2Im4fTuDyGtB2ANZndakx4aHlQFbI9r5kcvLqvhXLvopTWK8d0FoTnvHcBxEVMo7v UZ+bh3oc1LVDU6/4v0ig4BRSDxw7U1f9cF2HuhgPjUifGjQ5zKK4Sb5OsyatGiNZfoWc /A5w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=3xGS3YaA8Uc/ulfpRVVNHlEH3qxZ+NkzhbJbUei5648=; b=M6JxMzcftTH4aUPcTFfbar1FSIlzDMC+ue92CKHnXBjBUpJdgfSmwe7CawFQXTk3Ni wa7L3MdaS76Fsag1M00/8TQN/ogK4tZUx1ArvWI1OfSWu1hWviS++ewJ38V67s8ovv8Y y7GR3WvEdEIiD0pZeZPbIxZbu4TQmbQeMZH3ML8zA2i11dNatjGGRfxFaWZbKeegwlJt muYAtS5gtbtI1pf65Sz3FlPyM1g99cofvHs7l05o6q5kmx6VswXmRikMjXX7F8nVnFPZ 0MhVRgusNHNvBfJKHyR6qaI8XF37dn98p825GaVPB1JoyZm8dT+gYEKfuuEAzD9FozJb 3THQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwOj1RgV4WhSzDYp7CxEW5XE+YMyiK3/Uh8bLM261CbVCNRDPwcBVMGU+jY7dLCc6YNxxNOlixAZ02nU2g== X-Received: by 10.194.158.40 with SMTP id wr8mr19843271wjb.109.1473794538487; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.56.69 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [2600:1012:b159:9a9a:d9d7:39c4:cca5:9a12] Received: by 10.28.56.69 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com> From: "Brian W." Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? To: Shamim Shahriar Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:22:21 -0000 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" 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" >