On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:19:52AM +0200, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
On 2009-05-07 06:03, Kurt Wall wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:37:10PM -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
Are you using Seagate drives? They have shown issues on lags of up to 30 seconds, which will drop an overall speed report.
This might be true of consumer-grade drives, but I haven't seen or experienced in enterprise-class drives.
Actually, the firmware-bug that Seagate finally admitted to earlier this year, also affected Barracuda ES.2 drives (only SATA models though), which they classify as a enterprise product. On the consumer side, it hit several Barracuda 7200 and Maxtor DiamondMax22 models.
I stand corrected. I wasn't aware of this bug.
Some reports was that the drives 'paused' on contiguous reads, others where suddenly not detected by bios, and hence 'bricked'. I have had 2 out of 3 of those drives, which where bricked due to the firmware-bug.
Maxtor, had a nasty one a few years ago in which, under certain conditions, the head remained magnetized after completing a write and starting to move to another cylinder, resulting in corrupted data as the slightly magnetized head moved across the platter. Kurt -- Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org