On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:28:10PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote: > I'm very curious to hear how they are in production. I've had vibration of
My thoughts exactly. > large sets of drives basically render the consumer drives useless. Timeouts, > highly variable performance, drives constantly dropping out of raids. It > became especially fun when the heavy I/O of a rebuild knocks additional drives > out of the array. Also my experience down to a T. > I'd also worry that running the consumer drives well out of spec (both in duty > cycle and vibration) might significantly shorten their lives. > > Are the 7200.11 1.5TB seagate's particularly vibration resistant? No. They're awful, as the entire 7200.11 line (I've had failures in 750 GByte, 1 TByte, 1.5 TByte, everywhere, even with reasonably small drive populations). > Maybe those $0.23 nylon standoffs work better than I'd expect. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
