From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Rainer_F=FCgenstein?= Subject: 3TB drives failure rate Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:15:27 +0100 Message-ID: <11510711257.20121028131527@oudeis.org> Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Rainer_F=FCgenstein?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids when trying to upgrade my raid5 with 4 Western digital caviar green 3TB drives [WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0] (3 brandnew, 1 about 4months old), the "old" drive and one of the brand new ones failed with unrecoverable read errors and about 70 reallocated sectors each. the failures already occured during the initial resync after creating the raid. until now I was very fond of WD caviar green drives, but after this 50% failure rate I'm not very eager to restore data from the backup. what is your experience with 3TB drives, WD and others? (low power drives appreciated, performance is not an issue) tnx.