[ale] Which large capacity drives are you having the best luck with?

[Richard Faulkner]

I own one WD Green (1TB) HDD and couldn't be happier...of course that
could all change
in a "ms" couldn't it?  : )  It has resolved a heat and noise issue I
have with one of our 
recording studio systems (drives too loud) and heading issues in a
passive cooling Zalman
case (TN 500AF) that we use.  Silence is golden for the recording work
we do and it fills
that role very well.  

I am considering getting another for my desktop (FC12) running kernel
(v2.6.32.26-175)
and Gnome (v2.28.2)

Question for Greg...

I do not have storage-fixup.conf in FC12....neither do I see it
available in package
manager.  Where is a safe source to get it?  

Merry Christmas all and to all a good "byte".....Rich in Lilburn


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Which large capacity drives are you having the best
luck with?
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:12:03 -0500


Avoid wd green drives.  They suck in my opinion.

Also get the latest storage-fixup package.  See the
/etc/storage-fixup.conf and make sure that what you buy are not in
there.  Ie. That file is basically a list of makes/models that
malfunction, but linux can force them to work by disabling their power
saving features.

Also, the current mdraid best practice is NOT to use a set of drives
all from one batch.

Ie the more variety the better.  Different makes,models, manu. Is best.

I suspect you'd also be smart to pay attention to the physical sector
size and get all the same.

Greg


On 12/21/10, Matty <matty91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to play around with openfiler and freenas over Xmas, and I've
> been reading tons of 1.5TB and 2TB disk drive reviews tonight. From
> what I've gathered so far, the reliability of large capacity drives
> sucks and you need to factor this in when picking your RAID levels
> (I'm going with RAID6). Amazon currently has 1.5TB drives for $60:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZCXJZE?ie=UTF8&tag=tp6708-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002ZCXJZE"
>
> So I'm thinking about picking up a few of these for my project. Anyone
> have any thoughts on these drives or any of the other 1.5TB - 2TB
> drive manufacturers? Trying to find something that performs reasonably
> well and is relatively reliable.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
> - Ryan
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