Re: [opensuse] Re: Hard drive errors

Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Malcolm wrote:

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Hi I have WD RE3 disks of over 36K Hours, purchased 10 years ago and still running fine, worth the extra few dollars for the enterprise versions...

You're lucky.

RE means "raid edition".

In a raid array if you have a bad sector you want the drive to fail fast so the raid sub-system can quickly get the data from another drive.

Thus you need the firmware to try a sector only once or twice before it gives up and fails. (Each try involves a full revolution or about 9 msecs with a 7200 RPM drive)

And that's why there's a standard to tell the firmware what behaviour you want from each drive but sadly, wait, WD doesn't support it, preferring to gouge customers instead. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org