February 4, 2013 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Benchmarking the Seagate ST2000DM001

2 Comments / Benchmarks, Disks, File Systems, hardware / By Dan Langille / February 4, 2013

I have a Seagate ST2000DM001 sitting in a server. I’ve run some simple tests. Results are below. Tests were run with FreeBSD 9.1 in the hardware listed below. The hardware We are testing on the following hardware: motherboard – SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard (Supermicro link): $224.99 CPU – AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 […]

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Abandoning all reason and logic in pursuit of the perfect HDD

Yesterday, I was pretty sure I knew what HDD I was going to buy. I was ready to buy 6 new Toshiba 3TB HDD for a ZFS raidz2 array. Then, last night, I decided to do something entirely out of character for people making HDD purchase. I decided to stop reading and start buying. I