Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:52:53 -0500 From: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> To: nightrecon@verizon.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server? Message-ID: <26ddd1750901300452s2dbab6eej99fa945cda5db856@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750901300433m612fff76m2af9c9414d67313b@mail.gmail.com> References: <26ddd1750901291933i31f31328rffcb3e5116cb1bf@mail.gmail.com> <gluclm$cq3$1@ger.gmane.org> <26ddd1750901300433m612fff76m2af9c9414d67313b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> 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
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