[mythtv-users] 2 TB Hard Drive Recommendations

[Ian Clark]

On 5 December 2010 21:18, jmk <jmk at foofus.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to merge my file server (4x250GB mdadm RAID5) with my
> MythTV backend. I'd like to buy 3 2TB drives for a RAID5 setup to house
> recordings, videos, music, and personal files. I thought this would be a
> simple purchase and the WD20EARS initially looked like a good buy.
> Unfortunately, a bit of reading suggests there are all sorts of issues
> with recent drives I should take into consideration (e.g. 4K sectors,
> TLER).
>
> Does anyone have some positive experience/recommendations for 2 TB (or
> at least 1.5 TB) drives and mdadm-based RAIDs?
>
I've got 3x2TB in a RAID 5 config in a NetBSD box that work just fine.
A friend has the same setup under linux.

They're all Hitachi's.

In fact most of my HDs are Hitachi/IBM, can't recommend them enough.

My current raid has been on 24x7 since I built it pretty much. It
replaced a 4x500G RAID array that was about 3 years old. Those drives
are all still working too. (2 of them are now my Myth storage drives,
just checked and they're reporting a power on time of 22146 hours,
which is about 2.5 years.)

Hitachi/IBM had problems about 10-12 years ago with the infamous
"Deathstar"s, but since those days have been absolutely rock solid in
my experience.

As I'm starting to sound like a HGST rep I'll shut up now though. :)

Cheers,

Ian