On Wednesday 02 September 2009 11:23:46 Eugen Leitl wrote: > 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).
I have the same experience with those drives. Not really reliable. > > > Maybe those $0.23 nylon standoffs work better than I'd expect. -- Best regards, Marian Marinov _______________________________________________ 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
