From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 17:25:27 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E942BFE534E for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F730756EC for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB517180F0; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 12:05:29 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Toshiba disk low performance To: Christos Chatzaras , FreeBSD References: <20180607171933.6b4babd094f4d056da797cf5@sohara.org> <5D96200B-649B-4851-9FC6-F56F3188326B@cretaforce.gr> From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 12:05:29 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5D96200B-649B-4851-9FC6-F56F3188326B@cretaforce.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:25:27 -0000 On 06/07/18 11:54, Christos Chatzaras wrote: > I test it with 3 different servers with Toshiba HDDs. The disks are new, only few hours in usage. I don't think they have any bad sectors. > This is exactly why we have virtually no Toshiba hard drives around. Also, neither of vendors who build machines which we buy uses Toshiba drives. And once we notice hardware from some vendor does not behave decently over time (about 6 years is a must), we abandon such vendor for good. "Pricegrabber" is your enemy when hardware is concerned. Once someone stated it so well, that I just keep repeating it. If you can spend 10-15% more but get definitely good reliable hardware, do it. Otherwise you will pay much more with your time, and will pay to replace failed hardware soon as well. But alas, the market is driven by mass customer who does not care about the above, and keeps paying what looks like much less for something that is not worth it. Valeri > >> On 7 Jun 2018, at 19:19, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> >> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 18:02:03 +0300 >> Christos Chatzaras wrote: >> >>> I order a new dedicated server from a provider. The server has 2 Toshiba >>> disks and the disk peformance is very slow. >> >> I have had similar experiences with Toshiba drives, it improves >> somewhat when they have finished remapping all the bad sectors IME. >> >> -- >> Steve O'Hara-Smith >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++