I'd like to gather everyone's experiences with the various HD that have been used here.

The goal is to build a good bit of data for future users of this product to use to build their systems with.


I'll start with the Seagate Barracudu ES2 Drives. I'll never recommend them again. Plagued with issues - drives aborting commands - dropping offline, high failure rate. I've used firmware SN04, 05, AN05 and I continue to have issues in the 500GB and 1TB capacities.
I have over 32 Seagate ES2 drives and will currently be replacing them with Western Digital RE3 drives.

I've used the WD RE2 drives in 400GB capacities and can recommend these. When we deploy onto the RE3 drives, I'll report back here.

Can anyone comment on using either Raptors/Velociraptors in SAN environments?