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From: Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>
To: "Rainer Fügenstein" <rfu@oudeis.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3TB drives failure rate
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:51:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508DC4ED.3030706@kieser.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11510711257.20121028131527@oudeis.org>

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I've had interesting cases where WD Green Drives (specifically WD15EARS, 
WD15EADS) don't necessarily "fail" but suddenly have very slow 
random/read write performance which slows down the rest of the array. 
Removing the drive, and replacing it with a (new) drive usually resolves 
the issue. I have since started to avoid "green" drives due to this issue.

-Peter

On 2012-10-28 5:15 AM, Rainer Fügenstein wrote:
> 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.
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-28 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28 12:15 3TB drives failure rate Rainer Fügenstein
2012-10-28 12:19 ` Mathias Burén
2012-10-28 12:49   ` John Robinson
2012-10-28 12:54 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-28 16:47 ` Ed W
2012-10-28 17:05   ` Joe Landman
2012-10-28 22:12     ` joystick
2012-10-28 22:24       ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 23:59         ` joystick
2012-10-29  0:09           ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-29  4:29             ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-29  7:54               ` David Brown
2012-10-29 13:02                 ` Phil Turmel
2012-10-30 23:54                   ` 3TB drives failure rate (summary) Rainer Fügenstein
2012-10-31 12:35                     ` Phil Turmel
2012-11-01 15:13                       ` Miles Fidelman
2012-11-01 15:24                         ` John Robinson
2012-11-01 15:39                           ` Miles Fidelman
2012-11-01 16:05                             ` John Robinson
2012-11-01 16:25                               ` Miles Fidelman
2013-02-05 17:43                       ` Adam Goryachev
2013-02-05 18:08                         ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-02-05 20:34                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-29 13:26               ` 3TB drives failure rate Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 19:50 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 19:59   ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 20:10     ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 20:16       ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 20:34         ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 20:49           ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 20:59             ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:07               ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 20:50           ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:07             ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:18               ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 21:24                 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-10-28 21:45                 ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 22:35                   ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:51                 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:59           ` joystick
2012-10-28 22:10             ` Phil Turmel
2012-10-29  0:12               ` joystick
2012-10-29  0:21                 ` Phil Turmel
2012-10-29  0:27                 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:21 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-10-28 23:51 ` Peter Kieser [this message]

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