From: Tom Wirschell <dm-devel@wirschell.nl>
To: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Hard drives shutting themselves off in RAID mode
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:42:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060614094236.492bab33@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060614035801.GA24236@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
On 14 Jun 2006, Arno Wagner wrote:
>
> WD drives are misdesigned in some way that they need sometimes
> very long to respond to commands. I think it is a quality issue.
> WD itself has "RAID ready" drives that don't do this.
>
> I have run TB sized arrays of Seagate and Maxtor drives with
> Linux software RAID for years now and never, ever had this issue.
> My advice is to dump the WD drives and get others.
I was _really_ hoping it wouldn't have to come to that.
But I honestly don't get it. If the drives behave when accessed
individually, what is it that software raid does so differently that
makes them act like this?
Kind regards,
Tom Wirschell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-14 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-13 21:53 Hard drives shutting themselves off in RAID mode Tom Wirschell
[not found] ` <62b0912f0606140419s60c30535p bcc97c30ef99c50d@mail.gmail.com>
2006-06-14 3:58 ` Arno Wagner
2006-06-14 7:42 ` Tom Wirschell [this message]
2006-06-14 11:19 ` Molle Bestefich
2006-06-14 16:00 ` Rune Saetre
2006-06-14 19:52 ` Tom Wirschell
2006-06-15 20:29 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-06-15 21:25 ` Tom Wirschell
2006-06-15 22:18 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-06-15 22:48 ` Rune Saetre
2006-06-15 22:53 ` Arno Wagner
2006-06-16 18:21 ` Molle Bestefich
2006-06-16 18:32 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-06-16 22:47 ` Tom Wirschell
2006-06-17 0:35 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-06-17 18:11 ` Tom Wirschell
2006-06-18 13:45 ` Rune Saetre
2006-06-18 15:13 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-06-18 15:33 ` Rune Saetre
2006-06-18 18:50 ` Arno Wagner
2006-06-23 11:27 ` Molle Bestefich
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