[ale] Seagate 1.5TB drives, bad blocks, md raid, lvm, and hard lock-ups

[Brian W. Neu]

> It's possible these could be caused by TLER:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLER
>
> I am using a bunch of Seagate 1.5TB drives with ZFS (it has built-in
> data checksumming, which silently repairs corruption), and have seen
> higher than normal failure rates from these drives. The reviews on
> Newegg seem to indicate that these drives have TONS of issues, and I
> won't be purchasing any additional Seagate disks in the future.
>
> - Ryan
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> http://prefetch.net
>   

Ryan, are you using them on OpenSolaris, or are you using ZFS-FUSE?  I'm
seeing one post to the BTRFS mailing list claiming that the FUSE
implementation is stable.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg02950.html

I think this is where I'm going to take this server.  I'm not looking to
learn OpenSolaris right now and need to move on.

BTW, since I disabled the swap space, the server has been rock solid. 
I'm also going to RMA /dev/sda (has the 8 reallocated sectors).