[mythtv-users] Filesystem of choice for recording drive?

[Neil Salstrom]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Mike Hodson <mystica at gmail.com> wrote:
> That seems somewhat soon for a 2tb vintage drive to just up and die...
>
> I'm personally quite happy with my Toshiba
> http://storage.toshiba.com/storagesolutions/client/dt01aca-series dt01aca300
> drives I recently got to replace a ZFS array built out of Seagate 2tb
> barracudas, one of which has a seized spindle,...luckily I had parity data
> remaining and I rebuilt the new array with double parity this time and
> luckily have all data intact.
>
> Another anecdote: I work in a web hosting centric datacenter and have seen a
> large sample set of disks; wd has consistently had worse longevity with
> their caviar blacks and blues compared to seagates similar 7200 or 5400rpm
> offerings.   One customer has over 100 of these Toshiba 2tb drives in
> service with almost no replacements of the same in my 2.5 year tenure at
> this place.  2 or 3 drives in that time from the customers Toshiba stock
> have been replaced compared to 20 or more between about 300 combined wd and
> Seagate deployed in other servers also owned by that same customer, both
> consumer [caviar] and enterprise[re3 re4] combined.
>
> I've seen the RE WD drives die sooner than consumer class 7200.12 barracudas
> as well. Implying their cheaper consumer drives are built with even lower
> longevity components.

On the subject of drive lifetime, backblaze just updated their drive
test results:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

Makes me wish I would have seen this a few days ago when I bought the drive!