Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:38:09 -0600 From: Josh Carter <josh@multipart-mixed.com> To: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital RE4-GP WD2002FYPS 2TB hard disks Message-ID: <08FA3881-AE46-441B-841E-F3E314713256@multipart-mixed.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE4BB46.2040608@rcn.com> References: <4AE4BB46.2040608@rcn.com>
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Gary, Just one data point, we've been evaluating 60 of these drives and we've had some problems. We've had a couple fall over, and WD said they had some production issues which are now worked out. We'll see. :) We had problems on both SAS and direct-attach SATA. The drives have great specs, however, and we're going to continue working with WD. I'm pretty sure WD is making a serious effort to get into the enterprise space with these drives, so they'll get their stuff together. Right at the moment I'd have some reservations about putting these drives into a production environment. Best regards, Josh On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Gary Corcoran wrote: > I'm thinking of building a ZFS-based home server using just the > motherboard ICH10R SATA connectors, and a few Western Digital RE4-GP > WD2002FYPS 2TB > disk drives. These are the "Raid Edition enterprise class" drives. > I've read of > problems with these drives when connected to mid-to-high end SATA > RAID controllers > from Adaptec, Areca, and LSI. But I was wondering if anyone has had > any problems > just hooking them up to to the Intel motherboard ICH10R SATA > connections as simple > (individual) disks? Or has anyone had any success in using these > drives for a raidz > setup? > > Thanks, > Gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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