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    Cheaper alternative to ZFS Storage for a home NAS

    I'm looking to build a NAS for home use with 8-10*(2-4TB) drives, out of which 2-3 drives would be used for parity via software RAID. In the past years and up to date, ZFS seems to have become the most suggested solution for such a scenario. However, ZFS comes with all those benefits at a...
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    ZFS debate: SMB/CIFS vs. iSCSI

    I'm trying to shift the discussion back to the main question: What do you think that are the cons for making ZFS 'dumb'/ not aware of what is stored on the disks, by using iSCSI? What exacly do I lose? Are there ZFS features that will not be available when using iSCSI?
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    ZFS debate: SMB/CIFS vs. iSCSI

    danswartz, yes, indeed, it's a tradeoff. The problem is that, in this moment, with no hands-on experience, I feel that I am not able to take all the differences in consideration, since I don't know them very well. Playing in a VM would still not help enough, although I will do this too, because...
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    ZFS debate: SMB/CIFS vs. iSCSI

    I'm preparing for my first ZFS mini-server build, and I am still debating over SMB/CIFS and iSCSI. I don't have any experience with neither one of these protocols and I'm wondering if anyone could share some of his work experiences with them. I know the basic difference between[file vs block...
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    Samsung 2TB F4EG HD204UI weak sectors

    I tried to run SpinRite 6.0, but when it reaches those sectors, it stops with this error: Division Overflow Error 5672
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    Samsung 2TB F4EG HD204UI weak sectors

    I think I made a mistake. By Weak Sectors, I meant a sector that is marked as Pending Sector and has a failed CRC32 checksum. Let me show you:
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    Samsung 2TB F4EG HD204UI weak sectors

    I did a low level format, then a random pattern writting ~ 10 times on those sectors, everything seemed ok. But the problem reappeared after ~ 1 month. The sectors are still kept as pending, not even reallocated.
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    Samsung 2TB F4EG HD204UI weak sectors

    The scan has finished now and it has found 145 weak sectors, spread around the disk.
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    Samsung 2TB F4EG HD204UI weak sectors

    Hi, I have some ~20 weak sectors from a new Samsung F4EG HDD. The problem is that even after a full low level format + a random pattern write session over the whole HDD(using HD Sentinel, very powerful software, btw) I could not get rid of them. It's the second time when my RAID1 array...
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    Hitachi 3TB 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630, sometimes not detected at BOOT

    Any thoughts?
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    Hitachi 3TB 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630, sometimes not detected at BOOT

    I'm booting from an WD3200AAKS. This one is detected all the time. Also, I forgot to mention that the Hitachi behaves similarly(sometimes not detected) on a different generation motherboard, a Sandy Bridge one.
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    Hitachi 3TB 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630, sometimes not detected at BOOT

    The SMART parameters are flawless:
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    Hitachi 3TB 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630, sometimes not detected at BOOT

    Hi, I have a Hitachi 3TB 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630, which is not detected at boot time around every 2-3 power-ons of the PC. In order to be detected I have to poweroff the PC completely, because a Reset doesn't fix the problem. When it's not detected, I'm almost sure that the Hitachi is the...
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    HDD prices rising

    Because they are greedy. They don't only want to get a 0% loss from the flood, they want to make big profit over it. I bet they would cause another flood if they could. Seagate Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend Increase by 39%, Share Repurchase of $1B
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    Prevent RMA-ing a dead SSD with sensitive data

    Is there a way to prevent sending to RMA a dead SSD with personal/sensitive data? Besides encrypting the drive, which would decrease the speed and would lower your chances of self data recovery in case of minor SSD damages/corruption.
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