Comment on Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true?
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months agoAren’t they meant to go in data centers? You wouldn’t want a drive in a data center to spin down. That introduces latency in getting the data off of them.
TCB13@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That should be a choice of the OS / controller card not of the drive itself. Also what datacenter wants to run drives that don’t report half of the SMART data just because they felt like it?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Data centers replace drives when they fail and that’s about it. They don’t care much about SMART data.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
We used to use smart data to predict when to order new drives and on really bad looking days increase our redundancy. Nothing like getting a bad series of drives for PB of data to make you paranoid I guess.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
What kind of attributes did you find relevant? I imagine the 19x codes…
I’ve read the Blackblaze statistics and I’m using a tool (Scrutiny) that takes those stats into account for computing failure probability, but at the end of the day the most reliable tell is when a drive gets kicked out of an array (and/or can’t pass the long smart test anymore).
Meanwhile, I have drives with “lesser” attributes sitting on warning values (like command timeout) and ofc I monitor them and have good drives on standby, but they still seem to chug along fine for now.