What's funny is WD is just being idiotic. Seagate does NOT have that extended error checking. I have two barracuda green drives in an sbs 2k8 server on a sas 6 ir and they work perfectly.
On 2/29/2012 3:05 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Miguel Medalha wrote:
A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server from Asus with a SATA backplane. The cables, made by Foxconn, came pre-installed.
After I replaced the SATA cables with new ones, all problems were gone and the array is now rock solid.
Thanks for this info, Miguel.
<snip> > As an additional information, I quote from the Caviar Black range > datasheet: > > "Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Black Hard Drives are > tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications > (RAID-0 /RAID-1). > - Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Caviar Black Hard Drives are > not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments > utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as > they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID > applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please > consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with > RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested > extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like > enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing." Wonderful... NOT. We've got a number of Caviar Green, so I looked up its datasheet... and it says the same.
That rebuild of my system at home? I think I'll look at commercial grade drives....
mark
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