From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: Samsung F1 RAID Class SATA/300 1TB drives Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:50:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4CCA0948.3060600@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CCA0948.3060600@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Robinson Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, John Robinson 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