S-ATA Drives For Server

ZXSpectrum · 4 Feb 2006 at 12:44

I seem to recall one of the major HDD manufacturers were producing S-ATA Hard disks that were substantially more stable in Server RAID Arrays...

Over the last few months we have been plagued with problems with Adaptec 2410SA Hotswap Enclosure and S-ATA Seagate HDD's in a RAID5 Configuration... I dont think one of them has not failed... The drives do not fail and are tested 100% but the array just intermittantly fails...

I have also heard that it could be a problem with the NCQ function on Seagate drives causing this...

Anyone be of help?

Cheers...

tomos · 4 Feb 2006 at 12:51

arent the best SATA drives the raptor 150's? afaik they were made with raid in mind also.

smids · 4 Feb 2006 at 13:07

Any of the Western Digital RAID edition drives. (RE2 the latest). The new Raptor 150 also has this feature known as TLER (Time-limited Error recovery). This prevents the array going down by sending a message to the controller whilst it recovers. Desktop drives do not have this and can 'timeout' if no response is detected from them by the RAID controller. This is what I believe you are referring to.

ZXSpectrum · 4 Feb 2006 at 13:16

Nice one guys.. Will check them out.. I thought it was WD...