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  • Maxxarcade
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    • Jul 2006
    • 973
    #1

    Hard drive opinions?

    I need to buy 5 more 320GB hard drives for use on my 3ware 7500-8 RAID card. Currently my server has 2 Western Digital WD3200JB and a Seagate 7200.10 series with 16MB cache.

    Right now I'm looking at getting more of the seagate drives, but I wanted some opinions. Are there better drives for use in a RAID array? I figured it would be best if most or all of the drives were matching, and I like the 16MB cache of the Seagates.
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    • Maxxarcade
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      • Jul 2006
      • 973
      #2
      Re: Hard drive opinions?

      Well, I just spent $430 and bought 5 of the Seagate drives. I'll post the results next week when everything is connected. Hopefully they last as long as the one I have now.

      Though I never liked how the SMART logs report huge numbers for "Hardware ECC Recovered" and Raw Read Error Rate"

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        • RJARRRPCGP
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          • Jul 2004
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          Re: Hard drive opinions?

          Originally posted by Maxxarcade

          Though I never liked how the SMART logs report huge numbers for "Hardware ECC Recovered" and Raw Read Error Rate"

          Seagates seem to always do this!
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            • dood
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              • Mar 2004
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              #4
              Re: Hard drive opinions?

              SMART is just about useless.
              Ludicrous gibs!

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                • Maxxarcade
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                  • Jul 2006
                  • 973
                  #5
                  Re: Hard drive opinions?

                  Ya, the only thing I like about it, is being able to see the runtime hours of a drive, though even that isn't accurate

                  I had two identical drives in the same system from the time they were new, and the power on hours read different amounts. Real accurate there

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