HDD warranty checks
I was looking around for warranty checking pages. I found these for my HDD: Western Digital Toshiba Seagate and Maxtor
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Disks
The hardware is ready. What tests to run?
I think I’m now at the point where I have all the hardware assembled and it’s ready for testing. Now I’m trying to determine what set of fio tests to run. If you know of a set of standard tests, or just have some of your own, please let me know in the comments. The hardware The disks I have assembled are all available via the LSI 9211-8i. The basic hardware specs are:
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Do you have a Seagate ST2000DM001?
Do you have Seagate ST2000DM001? This 2TB drives seems OK at straight dd output, but seems absolutely terrible at random output. If you have one, and do not mind this destructive test (IT WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON THAT DRIVE), please let me know the results. The reason I ask is the very slow results we’re getting from a tool designed to test the throughput of an HDD based on writing data at
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Benchmarking the Seagate ST2000DM001 – slower hardware
In the previous benchmark of the Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB HDD, I used a AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz (see the URL for complete details of the system). Today, I’m using a different system. The hardware We are testing on the following hardware: motherboard – SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL+-F Micro ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1155 Intel C202 DDR3 1333 (manufacturer page) – $179.99 CPU – Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) 4 x
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Benchmarking the Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q – ZFS
Following on from yesterday’s benchmark, I’m adding in some ZFS tests. All hardware is the same. Of note: $ zdb | grep ashift ashift: 9 $ sudo diskinfo -v ada0 Password: ada0 512 # sectorsize 128035676160 # mediasize in bytes (119G) 250069680 # mediasize in sectors 0 # stripesize 0 # stripeoffset 248085 # Cylinders according to firmware. 16 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. S12PNEACB31368P # Disk
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Benchmarking the Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q
Today, I’ll be benchmarking a Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q. I’ve had this for a couple of weeks, but I’ve not been ready for it until today. This drive will not be detected by FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE and before. A relatively recent commit fixed a problem with When I booted with the SSD installed, I saw this in demsg: (aprobe3:ahcich5:0:0:0): SETFEATURES ENABLE SATA FEATURE. ACB: ef 10 00 00 00 40 00 00
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Benchmarking the TOSHIBA DT01ACA300
Tonight I received a TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 3TB HDD. This is a 7200 RPM SATA III drive. 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 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $284.99 RAM – Kingston 8GB 240-Pin
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Benchmarking the Seagate ST2000DM001
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 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $284.99 RAM – Kingston 8GB
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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 decided to buy a single drive of two different types and compare them to each other, and to
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Price / GB for 6 new HDD
I have been pondering buying some new HDD lately. Price/GB isn’t the only metric. But I did up a list of the short candidates, but before you buy, read below. I should mention all the links below go to Newegg, only because that’s where I was searching. They may not be the best price, but they have a reputation of making sure that links don’t die 6 months after I pasted them. Yeah,
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