[BBLISA] Whatever happened to Seagate?

[Nahum Shalman]

We used to buy a lot of Seagate and we still buy them for things that
aren't 24x7x365.
For that we've largely shifted towards HGST based on recommendations from
people and companies running far more spindles than we do.
And of course, use ZFS whenever possible, have good backups, yadda yadda
yadda.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/02/20/on-disk-failure/ is a good read
if you have the time for it.

-Nahum

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
> >
> > --
> > The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
> from
> > pig
> > to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. - G.
> > Orwell
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