Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:08:57 -0500 From: Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> To: jon@abccomm.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com> Subject: Re: ATA Woes. Message-ID: <42DD4FC9.4050304@osoft.us> In-Reply-To: <8eea04080507191122225bd9ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <151574576.20050719103740@byrnehq.com> <1591154927.20050719132119@byrnehq.com> <8eea04080507191122225bd9ac@mail.gmail.com>
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Jon Simola wrote: > On 7/19/05, Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com> wrote: >>I'm totally confused. I don't know enough about SMART to know whether >>I'm looking at real failing drives or some bug exposed by the >>interaction between drive firmware, hd controller and FreeBSD. > > > What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no > place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD) > in 1U rackmounts, and am moving on to trying the WD Raptor SATA drives > (which claim to be low-end server). > I have to agree with this opinion, I recently had a WD1600JD SATA fail within a couple months of installation, and the warranty replacement failed within a week. First drive failed autodetection and made servo ticking noises. Second drive had many bad sectors. Add this to the pile of dead 3yr-old 40GB WD drives from all the workstations around here. I install SATA drives in duplicate and triplicate for this reason. Preferably in removable bays with a fan. I assume they're bad out of the box... I write them full of zeros with DD, then read it all back, then do it again. If I don't get read errors then I install them. Joe Koberg joe at osoft dot us
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