Seagate 3TB drive?

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Any problems that I should know about with these 3TB drives, Seagate
ST3000DM001?

Yousuf Khan
 
Any problems that I should know about with these 3TB drives, Seagate
ST3000DM001?

Yousuf Khan
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Well, doesn't look like too much opinion here about these drives. I'm
actually very surprised by how fast these hard drives are. I measured
200 Mbit/s on the ATTO benchmark on this thing! That's twice as fast as
any other hard drive I had previously, and only half as fast as my SSD.

Yousuf Khan
 
Well, doesn't look like too much opinion here about these drives. I'm
actually very surprised by how fast these hard drives are. I measured
200 Mbit/s on the ATTO benchmark on this thing! That's twice as fast as
any other hard drive I had previously, and only half as fast as my SSD.

Yousuf Khan
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FWIW, I've had eight of them in a RAID (ZFS) array spinning 24X7 for
over 1.5 years without incident. I added more about six months ago, and
the new ones have been doing fine, too. They're a mix of Thai and
Chinese manufacture. YMMV.
 
FWIW, I've had eight of them in a RAID (ZFS) array spinning 24X7 for
over 1.5 years without incident. I added more about six months ago, and
the new ones have been doing fine, too. They're a mix of Thai and
Chinese manufacture. YMMV.
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Sounds good to me.

Weird thing happened, and it was totally coincidental thing. One my
other drives, a 1.5 TB Seagate died, just around the time I installed
this one. It was a complete and utter failure, spindle doesn't even turn
anymore. But it's a coincidence, because little did I know that it was
starting to give SMART errors about 4 days before I bought the new
drive. So I guess I may have bought the new drive just in time, except I
didn't know it was failing, and couldn't transfer any of the data over
to new one. It wasn't important stuff though, I've gotten most of it
back in other ways.

Yousuf Khan
 
Weird thing happened, and it was totally coincidental thing. One my
other drives, a 1.5 TB Seagate died, just around the time I installed
this one. It was a complete and utter failure, spindle doesn't even turn
anymore. But it's a coincidence, because little did I know that it was
starting to give SMART errors about 4 days before I bought the new
drive.
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OK, I'll fall for it. How did you discover it started giving
SMART errors 4 days before it failed, if you only noticed that after
the drive was unreadable ?
Was HD Sentinel posting you the warnings, and you didn't check
the mail ?
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OK, I'll fall for it. How did you discover it started giving
SMART errors 4 days before it failed, if you only noticed that after
the drive was unreadable ?
Was HD Sentinel posting you the warnings, and you didn't check
the mail ?
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Actually, HD Sentinel wasn't mailing me anything, it turned out that its
mail settings had failed to keep working some unknown time earlier. I
think it might have had something to do with the fact that I changed my
gmail password, and didn't remember to change them in HD Sentinel too.

However, the drive continued to work long enough (with loud clicking),
that it still showed up under HD Sentinel, and I looked at HDS logs and
found out that the warnings started coming out just 4 days earlier.

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf Khan said:
Weird thing happened, and it was totally coincidental thing. One my
other drives, a 1.5 TB Seagate died, just around the time I installed
this one. It was a complete and utter failure, spindle doesn't even turn
anymore.
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http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

The 1.5TB Seagate has a 25% failure rate in the above report, and their
other models aren't much better. You'd have to be mad to entrust your
data to them.
 
Yousuf Khan said:
You're probably right, I'm thinking of getting a second drive to mirror
it to.
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Get a Hitachi. In common with Backblaze's findings, I've had absolutely
no failures out of an installed base of over 100 Hitachi drives
installed in arrays.

The trick is to make sure it is kept cool.
Any idea how long it would take a 3TB drive to get mirrored by
Microsoft software mirroring?
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A couple of days, I would think.
 
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