From: "Mathias Burén" <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
To: Tim Blundell <tim.blundell@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HDD reports errors while completing RAID6 array check
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:41:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=2xO5ZR5Vy2Qb2WJPzCPesy32nkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF65758.2030405@gmail.com>
On 13 June 2011 19:30, Tim Blundell <tim.blundell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/11/2011 5:49 AM, Mathias Burén wrote:
>>
>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>> Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format) family
>> Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
>> Serial Number: WD-WMAZ20188479
>> Firmware Version: 50.0AB50
>> User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes
>> Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
>> ATA Version is: 8
>> ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
>> Local Time is: Sat Jun 11 10:48:05 2011 IST
>> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
>> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> Not certain if this was mentioned. While WDC WD20EARS drives can be used in
> an RAID array, WD recommends using there RAID capable drives in an
> enterprise environment.
> I tried using same drives in a simple RAID-1 array and had serious
> performance issues (sync taking a week) and stalls when writing to disk. Are
> you using the stock firmware on these drives?
>
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I'm using stock firmware as far as I know (I've not flashed them
manually), and I experience no performance issues. Of course, my
system is limited (RAID6 with an Intel Atom), so I can't really push
them all out to test it. But still, no issues.
/M
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-13 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 17:37 HDD reports errors while completing RAID6 array check Mathias Burén
2011-06-10 18:00 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-06-10 18:23 ` Mathias Burén
2011-06-11 9:49 ` Mathias Burén
2011-06-13 18:30 ` Tim Blundell
2011-06-13 18:41 ` Mathias Burén [this message]
2011-06-15 9:11 ` Gordon Henderson
2011-06-14 0:15 ` Brad Campbell
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