From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 12:52:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E12E1065686 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:52:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mkhitrov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f15.google.com (mail-fx0-f15.google.com [209.85.220.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEF38FC12 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:52:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mkhitrov@gmail.com) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so172627fxm.19 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:52:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lqSGLVuBJY09JUdJ/Kz0BPSqgN6iF331e8KeGQ9Yaxc=; b=s0SB+JIe/IW8m7+nYxdps0Np4JSjT5pg1k9xlWFe45beXVRNkHmBEGRDJO3od5Pyme WKIuMCMObPLkavTKdb1cZnTPkTddlQOgP+iuuigE89FD90LCrNWOp7O4MPXuGa2VRfOq eNf7nw0Wad/Fk2ys2ocESio+/1WKdhTocm6ZM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=knxSvK1qyuoMxCcUmIzfRAXhsJoFB5Le72wjUNBZKSNqPwh6qacSK3vWYYzo899vkd UO647FLZu3L0MvpTiUmeB5cvL/XEP23yr4I0TIHKaRA36p2wlTz6H8gNAwxMNcZBdx9u XpTZtaSGT8YVyrz7wJKUhjsIwm3eiySkf7GcM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.109.84 with SMTP id i20mr1035213fap.42.1233319973982; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:52:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750901300433m612fff76m2af9c9414d67313b@mail.gmail.com> References: <26ddd1750901291933i31f31328rffcb3e5116cb1bf@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750901300433m612fff76m2af9c9414d67313b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:52:53 -0500 Message-ID: <26ddd1750901300452s2dbab6eej99fa945cda5db856@mail.gmail.com> From: Maxim Khitrov To: nightrecon@verizon.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:52:58 -0000 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Michael Powell wrote: >> I'm not really answering the direct question, per se, but there is a data >> point you may wish to know a little more about. There exists a difference in >> hard drives, ala "Enterprise" vs "Desktop". The difference is in the length >> of the timeout experienced when an error condition such as a platter sector >> read/write error and resultant remap. > > I'm aware of that fact. In my workstation I'm using four Seagate > Barracuda ES drives in RAID5. For this build I will likely go with > with ES.2 (ST31000340NS). > > - Max On second thought, given all the problems Seagate has been having lately, including with that particular model, I may go for WD RE3 drives instead. - Max