Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:49:00 -0500 From: cruxpot <cruxpot@gmail.com> To: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD NAS hardware suggestions Message-ID: <CAPYfQ9yoMu%2BfTMWPNpx9BKn_eEhMjCbrs=om0dh8oW5PxVhRYA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201407211056120131.00800484@smtp.24cl.home> References: <CAPYfQ9z%2B4hA1khcaPKs=gG4BpvgZtv=YLocK-XQ8m6s=539UVA@mail.gmail.com> <201407211056120131.00800484@smtp.24cl.home>
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I do not believe the seagate NAS drive is based on the 7200.11 platform. It is a newer series and I could not find much information on long term stability. Is the 2TB limitation going to cause issues on the BIOS? On Jul 21, 2014 9:56 AM, "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> wrote: > On 7/21/2014 at 9:35 AM cruxpot wrote: > > |Hi there, > | > |[snip] > | > |I am looking at Seagate's NAS line of drives since they seem to have > |less DOA's in reviews than the WD red drives. Are these good for > ZFS? > | > |[snip] > ============= > > Another data point for you: > http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=94502 > > > Depending upon where you looked, I wrote one of those early failure > reviews for the WD Red drives, yet I continue to buy them in my ZFS > array. Why?, you might ask. > > The easiest time to replace a failed drive is right at the beginning > when it is new. Both amazon and newegg have a very efficient > return/replace process for early failures. > > In my experience, once you get past the early failures, the WD Red > drives are solid, the Seagates less so. So I run them for a week > before I put them in the array. That seems to catch the early > failures. > > > I trade off early failures when it is far easier for me to deal with > them vs. later life failures that often (and usually) occur when you > least expect them and at inconvenient times. > > > You might make a different trade-off. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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