HD Reliability Thread

[silicon]

We use only Seagate drives (SCSI/SAS/ES) here, and have had a pretty decent run with them, certainly no worse than others using different brands. The latest Seagte FW issue is a bit stressful (tho we have been lucky with timing), but other brands have had their problems in the past as well, when we have been most happy that we weren't using brand X.

In general & across all sorts of servers we supply, we have always have better reliablity with SAS drives than SATAs, regardless of what the quoted MTBFs say. The number of Seagate SAS drives we RMA these days is very small. Cheers.

[Robotbeat]

A question for you, Silicon:

Have you used the 7200 rpm SAS drives (i.e. the 1TB ones)? Are they any better than the SATA ES ones, as far as reliability? How do they stack up against the 15000rpm SAS drives (reliability wise)?

[enealDC]

What kind of controller/HBA are you using? How many drives? What RAID lvl?

[enealDC]

I second Robotbeat's question. How are the 7200 SAS drives? Are the 500GB capacity more reliable? That's all I really care about. I mean all my VMs will be on these drives - but I don't want to pay 300 bucks a drive!