Re: Samsung F1 RAID Class SATA/300 1TB drives

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, John Robinson
<john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
> On 29/10/2010 00:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> I saw in Fry's San Jose ad today they were selling these
>> Serial-ATA/300 drives for $67. They didn't give a model number but
>> scouting around a bit on the web I'm guessing they are a discontinued
>> model.
>>
>> Any inputs on whether these are drives that work well with mdadm RAID?
>> Do they support TLER and otherwise work well?
>>
>> This would just be a home server of some type, nothing industrial.
>> Probably a 3 drive RAID-1 or something like that.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Well, they're perhaps not great. I bought three and after only about a
> thousand hours one of them was giving SMART errors, then after about 7,500
> hours a second one started doing it too. At that point I replaced both with
> other makes, copying over with ddrescue (or maybe it was dd_rescue), which
> worked without any failed sectors, then ran badblocks -w on the Samsungs and
> the SMART errors went away. The third one of mine is still fine, and the
> other two are now in a ReadyNAS giving good service.
>
> Somebody else on this list recently reported problems with them, though that
> may have been more controller-related than a real problem with the drives.
>
> But yes you can set TLER on them (with a custom-built smartmontools from SVN
> or the recently-released 5.40).
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
>
>
Thanks John - I think I'll skip them.

Cheers,
Mark