[OpenIndiana-discuss] Choice of disks: Will Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 64MB 2TB work OK in OI148??

[Gregory Youngblood]

Hitachi deskstar 7k3000 0f12115 disks were recommended by Mark (?) about a month ago when the topic was on port expanders.

Here's what he wrote:
> I have experienced disk issues when under high load.
> In my experience, very few disks work well with expanders.
> I use only one model after having issues show up after months of trouble free running.
> 
> For Supermicro expanders, avoid all 6Gbit sata disks and all non RE WD.
> A few Seagates are ok e.g. ST32000542AS , but ST32000641NS (6gbit) are not.
> Hitachi disks seem to be a winner all round, but now that WD is buying them out, it will likely that they will soon disappear.
> 
> Bad or suspect blocks can also show up as a problem with timeouts.
> 
> The zfs timeout issue is usually the result of the long error retry that nearly all desktop (except Hitachi) disks use by default.
> My take on this is the manufacturers method of forcing you to use Enterprise disks, since this behaviour breaks most raid systems.
> The end user used to have control of the timeout, but it has now been hard coded to very long.

When I asked about specific hitachi disk models, he indicated the 7k3000 0f12115 seemed to work well. I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, but I plan to.

Greg

On May 5, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:

> Or are there any gotchas?
> 
> I intend to put 4 identical ones, as mirrored pairs in ZFS.
> 
> It's on a SuperMicro XB7Si motherboard, the 4 onboard SATA connectors left after the system rpool's 2 500GB Seagate Barracuda.
> 
> These will serve up media files as an SMB/Cifs share (iSCSI??) for various media players
> 
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