[BBLISA] Whatever happened to Seagate?

[Daniel Feenberg]

We have a lot of Seagate, and haven't noticed problems nearly as
severe as that, or as Backblaze saw. But none of this is very
conclusive.  One thing I would mention is that the resilvering process
in Linux is very restrictive. It gives up after a single unreadable
sector on the drives it needs to read - even if that sector isn't in
use. I'd prefer it to reconstruct as much as it can, but I suppose it
would be complicated to report which files were incomplete.

daniel feenberg
NBER

On 5/5/15, Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 08:46:34AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote:
>
>> RIP, Seagate? Do you share that sentiment? (And, are you monitoring all
>> your drives' temperature and error counters?)
>
> Yeah, avoiding Seagate is a safe move. You're moving in the right direction
> with Hitachi and WD.
>
> Note that SMART statistics are *not* necessarily comparable between drive
> manufacturers, either in terms of what measures are provided and what
> similarly-named measures mean.
>
> Useful reading:
>
>     https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
>
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> Orwell
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