From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 03:37:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 440FB16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:37:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dglawrence.com (dsl-230-156.ipns.com [209.210.230.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA11D43D39 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:37:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dg@dglawrence.com) Received: from opteron.dglawrence.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dglawrence.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0K3beu2023310; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:37:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@dglawrence.com) Received: (from dg@localhost) by opteron.dglawrence.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0K3bYAB023309; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@dglawrence.com) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:37:34 -0800 From: "David G. Lawrence" To: Sam Leffler Message-ID: <20050120033734.GA594@opteron.dglawrence.com> References: <20050119151301.A22310@Denninger.Net> <8eea040805011913334b140af6@mail.gmail.com> <8eea04080501191506237fc762@mail.gmail.com> <20050119171504.A23623@Denninger.Net> <41EF22F0.7010009@errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41EF22F0.7010009@errno.com> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:37:57 -0000 > I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already > RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the > rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the > machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 160GB Serial > ATA drives. After testing for power, cables, disk controller, > motherboard, and other potential reasons I've decided the drives were > just faulty and have switched to another vendor. Yeah, the 6Y series Maxtor is particularly bad. More than half of all of them that I've had (a few dozen in total) have gone bad. The 7Y series is a slightly better, but still well short of an acceptable failure rate. On the other hand, the Hitachi 7K250 and 7K400 series SATA drives have worked quite well for us, with failure rates in the low single digits. Seagate SATA drives also seem to be reliable, although they don't perform very well. -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.