Gary,
Just one data point, we've been evaluating 60 of these drives and
we've had some problems. We've had a couple fall over, and WD said
they had some production issues which are now worked out. We'll
see. :) We had problems on both SAS and direct-attach SATA.
The drives have great specs, however, and we're going to continue
working with WD. I'm pretty sure WD is making a serious effort to get
into the enterprise space with these drives, so they'll get their
stuff together. Right at the moment I'd have some reservations about
putting these drives into a production environment.
Best regards,
Josh
On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Gary Corcoran wrote:
> I'm thinking of building a ZFS-based home server using just the
> motherboard ICH10R SATA connectors, and a few Western Digital RE4-GP
> WD2002FYPS 2TB
> disk drives. These are the "Raid Edition enterprise class" drives.
> I've read of
> problems with these drives when connected to mid-to-high end SATA
> RAID controllers
> from Adaptec, Areca, and LSI. But I was wondering if anyone has had
> any problems
> just hooking them up to to the Intel motherboard ICH10R SATA
> connections as simple
> (individual) disks? Or has anyone had any success in using these
> drives for a raidz
> setup?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
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