From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 13 19:52:27 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 AEB56BD75B7 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp3.irishbroadband.ie (smtp3.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7ADB5D4F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp3.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bjtkg-0003Z4-A9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:52:18 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.87 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1bjtl2-000AH0-Ag for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:52:40 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:52:15 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-Id: <20160913205215.f9631c82186533cdc04c2d60@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:52:27 -0000 On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:13:11 +0100 Shamim Shahriar wrote: > 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. I'll second the WD Red there are two 2TB ones in my array and not a reallocated sector between them! I'm none too impressed with the Toshiba I'm trying the array though, it works and it's fast but it's building up a lot of reallocated sectors (460 so far) good sectors seem to be staying good though the weekly scrub never has to do anything. The other drives are Samsung Spinpoints still going strong - pity they sold out to Seagate. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith