From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 13 22:31:49 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 9FF09BD92D1 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:31:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) Received: from barracuda.ssimicro.com (barracuda.ssimicro.com [96.46.39.196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ssimicro.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76E0F61B for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:31:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) Received: from mail.ssimicro.com (mail.ssimicro.com [64.247.129.10]) by barracuda.ssimicro.com with ESMTP id DGPzIOQb4slWiAdZ (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:31:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from markham.ssimicro.com (markham.ssimicro.com [64.247.130.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ssimicro.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u8DMUo3Y013259 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:30:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <229375c5-6760-5ff5-101c-e43105af5fdf@gmail.com> <20160913205215.f9631c82186533cdc04c2d60@sohara.org> <20160913215546.2325ce2d@archlinux.localdomain> From: markham breitbach Message-ID: <4c3b757e-3f94-49fa-856b-53c1a7a91263@ssimicro.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:31:39 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160913215546.2325ce2d@archlinux.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at ssimicro.com 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 22:31:49 -0000 I've always had pretty good results from the WD-RE drives, and I've had many of them operating under much less than ideal conditions. I have had a few of them fail out on me through the years, but not <40K hours. Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA Device Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-01B1B0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 015 015 000 Old_age =20 Always - 62319 Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA Device Model: WDC WD7502ABYS-02A6B0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 020 020 000 Old_age =20 Always - 58855 Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA Device Model: WDC WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 029 029 000 Old_age =20 Always - 52014 I am currently using some RED drives as an rsync daily backup target for a couple dozen servers, so needless to say these guys are under pretty heavy load. The RED are a tad on the slow side, though, and generally seem to have a higher failure rate. Model Family: Western Digital Red (AF) Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 060 060 000 Old_age =20 Always - 29803 -Markham