From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjammin2068 Subject: Re: Need Help with crashed RAID5 (that was rebuilding and then had SATA error on another drive) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 13:29:34 -0500 Message-ID: <57C32D8E.9030102@gmail.com> References: <215fd175-65b6-e24b-338f-0c44ae030573@websitemanagers.com.au> <57BBDA5B.3020706@gmail.com> <57BBDC15.5030301@gmail.com> <57BC61F7.8070102@gmail.com> <57BE450B.4030700@gmail.com> <56e86db5-456d-e9c1-339d-ba8903fe5dde@websitemanagers.com.au> <57BE52BC.6040908@gmail.com> <933228e0-bce4-ffad-f48d-034bf89bc07f@websitemanagers.com.au> <57BF9965.1020403@gmail.com> <57C0856D.8050209@youngman.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <57C0856D.8050209@youngman.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 08/26/2016 01:07 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 26/08/16 02:20, Ben wrote: >> [root@quantum ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sde >> smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-642.el6.centos.plus.x86_64] (local build) >> Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net >> >> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === >> Model Family: Seagate Barracuda (SATA 3Gb/s, 4K Sectors) >> Device Model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 >> Serial Number: Z4YDLXWJ >> LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 091877801 >> Firmware Version: CC45 >> User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] >> Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical >> Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] > Sorry Ben - that drive was NOT a smart buy !!! Seagate Barracuda :-( > > You MUST enable the timeout on this drive :-( > > Gut feel tells me most 1TB or less drives are okay in a raid - the > Barracudas are an exception :-( I've got two 3TB Barracudas mirrored, > and from reading the list, there's no way I'd go raid5 for more capacity > without ditching them. > > Most people seem to get WD Reds - I've asked about Seagate NAS but I've > not picked up on any reports about them - good or bad. Barracudas - the > news is pretty much all bad :-( > > Yea, I figured that out -- just couldn't find a decent detailed reference with what "SCT status supported" means versus the more fully featured. And this drive (sort of - but not this sub model -- and that's the replacement that Seagate recommended.) is not going to stay in the array. I'm going to get some more WD red's (or decent NAS friendly mechs) and pull this puppy out of the stack and use it elsewhere. Thanks for the confirmations! -Ben