Posting this to offtopic since it's not really freenas related.
I had 6 seagate 7200.12's (1tb) drives in hardware raid 5 on a highpoint rocketraid 3520 card. This worked absolutely awesome from 2008 or so until recently. A bunch of the old drives started to develop bad sectors. I didn't want to invest in new 1tb drives, so I thought I'd upgrade the whole array. I had some existing 3tb barracudas (the 7200.14 desktop ones), and bought a couple extra to make 6.
I wanted some fast local storage for the machine (windows workstation), so I arranged the 6 as raid 10 (3 sets of 2 way mirrors). (this array has always had selective backups run daily, which are sent to my secondary freenas machine). Twice in the first week I had the raid card 'fail' drives out of the array. I'm 95% sure the drives are fine, so I'm thinking it's something similar to cyberjock's experience with seagate 'desktop' drives.
What's funny, is that these exact same drives (7200.14 desktop) work fantastic in freenas and ZFS. I've got an 11 disk z3 in my main nas that's been completely problem free. I guess it's the hardware raid controller being more 'picky'? Zfs is more forgiving about the quirkyness of desktop drives?
So I think I'm just going to turn these 6 seagates into a zfs z2 pool. I've got some WD Blacks that should work fine on the rocketraid instead.
Anybody have other experiences with 7200.14's on a hardware raid card?
I had 6 seagate 7200.12's (1tb) drives in hardware raid 5 on a highpoint rocketraid 3520 card. This worked absolutely awesome from 2008 or so until recently. A bunch of the old drives started to develop bad sectors. I didn't want to invest in new 1tb drives, so I thought I'd upgrade the whole array. I had some existing 3tb barracudas (the 7200.14 desktop ones), and bought a couple extra to make 6.
I wanted some fast local storage for the machine (windows workstation), so I arranged the 6 as raid 10 (3 sets of 2 way mirrors). (this array has always had selective backups run daily, which are sent to my secondary freenas machine). Twice in the first week I had the raid card 'fail' drives out of the array. I'm 95% sure the drives are fine, so I'm thinking it's something similar to cyberjock's experience with seagate 'desktop' drives.
What's funny, is that these exact same drives (7200.14 desktop) work fantastic in freenas and ZFS. I've got an 11 disk z3 in my main nas that's been completely problem free. I guess it's the hardware raid controller being more 'picky'? Zfs is more forgiving about the quirkyness of desktop drives?
So I think I'm just going to turn these 6 seagates into a zfs z2 pool. I've got some WD Blacks that should work fine on the rocketraid instead.
Anybody have other experiences with 7200.14's on a hardware raid card?