Are these their Constellation line? If so, what would you say is the actually AFR? Seagate adveratises between 0.63% and 0.44%, but I doubt those numbers.
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Do the brands of HDDs and SSDs manufacturer matter?
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Are these their Constellation line? If so, what would you say is the actually AFR? Seagate adveratises between 0.63% and 0.44%, but I doubt those numbers.
How the heck would one person know the AFR of an entire brand? I mean seriously... the sample section is so small with one person that question is just off the wall to me, LOL!
Seriously, I hate when people shun brands because a drive or two or a (place part here) or two broke...or in this case think that their singular experience IS what the entirety of the brand does. Numbers. Statistics people!
Seriously, I hate when people shun brands because a drive or two or a (place part here) or two broke...or in this case think that their singular experience IS what the entirety of the brand does. Numbers. Statistics people!
you shouldn't... no reason not to...
If his/her job consists of dealing with these sorts of failure Woomack may know. The comment was made, so I asked in response. I certainly wouldn't make a thread with that question.
I bought HGST drives for my NAS... got 3x 3T drives, they're all doing fine. Not long running, only a couple months so far. But I got the ones that specified "NAS" on them, whether that means anything at all or not, I dunno. If I remember, it was a merger of IBM's and Hitachi's HDD divisions, then later was acquired and/or merged with Western Digital. I've not heard/read anything about their drives being any worse than anyone else's, so for $ per T, I was pretty pleased.
Just picked up a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB and a Crucial MX100 128GB today... we'll see, they have great reviews. I had an OCZ Vertex (2, I think) a couple years back, when SSDs were first getting big, that crapped out on me in just a few months and it soured me on them ever since. Finally getting back up on the horse.
Just picked up a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB and a Crucial MX100 128GB today... we'll see, they have great reviews. I had an OCZ Vertex (2, I think) a couple years back, when SSDs were first getting big, that crapped out on me in just a few months and it soured me on them ever since. Finally getting back up on the horse.
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FWIW I've used standard desktop drives for years in Linux RAIDs and have never seen a drive kicked out, not even the Seagate drive that I retired after three years of service because it had thousands of remapped sectors. Of course Linux RAID may differ from other RAID S/W and H/W.
The WD Red series are intended for RAID usage and cost modestly more than the other consumer grade drives. HGST also has RAID specific drives that are modestly priced compared to enterprise drives.
There seems to be little benefit to using RAID specific drives for service other than in a RAID.
Yeah, Linux software RAID doesn't have the issue that hardware RAIDs do.
I don't know of any enterprise grade drive that doesn't have RAID specific firmware. Admittedly, I've never looked, but it would seem very odd. I think some eSSDs do lack RAID firmware.
I don't know of any enterprise grade drive that doesn't have RAID specific firmware. Admittedly, I've never looked, but it would seem very odd. I think some eSSDs do lack RAID firmware.
This is an unfair blanket statement. I've used lots of drives, including WD green drives that caused the most issues, in software and hardware raid systems with no issues.
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I run Hitachi or WD in my servers. Crucial or Samsung for SSDs, although I will use OCZ refurb drives in places where a drive failure really doesn't matter.
