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Recent content by DLpres

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    Migrating a RAID set to another controller

    After a zero-write pass, I sometimes run our decommissioned drives through our commercial tape degausser, but hard drives seems to stress it and make it overheat. I have more fun with method #2 - drilling through, then slamming them with a hammer until they're all deformed. Safe enough for our...
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    Migrating a RAID set to another controller

    As for #2, we are already backing it up... to the array from #1 :-) It would be sensible to have a spare controller handy, I just don't see it happening. The controller was actually causing problems earlier this year and it took our reseller 1.5 months to scramble to get it to the OEM, which...
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    Migrating a RAID set to another controller

    Hi, I wanted to essentially confirm that RAID arrays are very specific to their controller. I can look at it in two ways: 1. Security through obscurity: if a malicious party gets their hands on your RAID5 array's drives - without the chassis/controller itself, and without knowing the exact...
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    Seagate ST4000DM000 w/ ARC-1680 dropping like flies

    odditory you were right: I forced the enclosure from 1.5G to 3G, and disabled TLER, as well as most power saving settings. (stagger power on= 2.0, Time to Low power Idle Disabled, Time to low RPM Disabled, Time to Spin down= 40.) Timeout = 22. Drastic change: It's been 5 days, I went through 30...
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    Seagate ST4000DM000 w/ ARC-1680 dropping like flies

    Putz: Just saw the NAS edition yesterday. I agree but it just means more RMAs/exchange for another unsupported-but-should-work drive. If I'm going that route, any opinion on the HGST Coolspin 4TB (5K4000 / HDS5C4040ALE630)? Haven't seen them before, but the price is also very good and they...
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    Seagate ST4000DM000 w/ ARC-1680 dropping like flies

    Apparently Seagate calls it ERC (Error Recovery Control). Anyway Areca does have the option of disabling TLER. I did that, and changed another (undocumented) field right next to it called Timeout, from 8 to 22 seconds. That said, if the drives aren't actually bad, why would they timeout in the...
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    Seagate ST4000DM000 w/ ARC-1680 dropping like flies

    Hi, I just got 8 x Seagate ST4000DM000 (also called STBD4000400) 4TB HDDs in a SAS enclosure with an Areca ARC-1680. That controller and enclosure worked very well for 3 years, but it was time for upgrades and we repurposed it to run disk-based backups. Initialization went fine, so I ran a...
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