On 8/5/2010 2:47 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote:
I wanted to buy some 1 Terabyte SATA drives for our storage array and wanted to stay away from the cheap desktop stuff. But each manufacturer has some "enterprise class drives". But is there something specific to look for? Most of those seem to have a MTBF of around 1.2 million hours and a URE of about 1 in 10^15. The S.M.A.R.T. abilities seem fairly standard. Is there a list somewhere of well tested drives? Or any recommendations?
We've talked about this topic on this list before. There are several schools of thought. Some people base their opinions on the manufacturer's claims, and some people base their opinions on the famous papers from Google and CMU that came out a couple of years ago that described how very large numbers of drives really work. It's an interesting topic, no doubt. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ 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
