From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 16:49:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0F39F74 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x22f.google.com (mail-we0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69B032ACD for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id t60so7695322wes.6 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:49:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=lN9WCGtRgu5sU93xGweMl/lLii6uA5ILEq4GlzkcONs=; b=FM8JGOgCfntdRPPSBlHiR1YMe3lcZhsqzBTIJIByXKsvNgh+cBuBv3O8kUgS7HlXxT Ni3KeCuFQ4YZnyw/sv5jie4C4qpUI7D7T1GnZ3cLX/1DDYJlaWi+ZYePAPymY27c4H9e Wb0n55oiV+wZvWKu1UlCAZrjd76CCMTKeMTsT7rZNyjRjMJmTGigHeHhbu26F7oRjlF/ NyIH1HwObf1I/idqROP80N6VU55IcxTgkl6vePtdT4oLD7olJbXsprm1XONVrMEPmMpw GxihdcVqecAqHlikiAH3+IhW5oZdzori0mJ7Ies2OvxpmODG2frnJ+o4oZE6dSqfl2H7 yPYg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.205.141 with SMTP id lg13mr6159342wic.21.1405961340633; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.156.2 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.156.2 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:49:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201407211056120131.00800484@smtp.24cl.home> References: <201407211056120131.00800484@smtp.24cl.home> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:49:00 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD NAS hardware suggestions From: cruxpot To: "Mike." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:49:05 -0000 I do not believe the seagate NAS drive is based on the 7200.11 platform. It is a newer series and I could not find much information on long term stability. Is the 2TB limitation going to cause issues on the BIOS? On Jul 21, 2014 9:56 AM, "Mike." wrote: > On 7/21/2014 at 9:35 AM cruxpot wrote: > > |Hi there, > | > |[snip] > | > |I am looking at Seagate's NAS line of drives since they seem to have > |less DOA's in reviews than the WD red drives. Are these good for > ZFS? > | > |[snip] > ============= > > Another data point for you: > http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=94502 > > > Depending upon where you looked, I wrote one of those early failure > reviews for the WD Red drives, yet I continue to buy them in my ZFS > array. Why?, you might ask. > > The easiest time to replace a failed drive is right at the beginning > when it is new. Both amazon and newegg have a very efficient > return/replace process for early failures. > > In my experience, once you get past the early failures, the WD Red > drives are solid, the Seagates less so. So I run them for a week > before I put them in the array. That seems to catch the early > failures. > > > I trade off early failures when it is far easier for me to deal with > them vs. later life failures that often (and usually) occur when you > least expect them and at inconvenient times. > > > You might make a different trade-off. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >