8TB easystore $159.99 BestBuy

Anyone else notice these were back at $159.99 on Black Friday? I ordered a couple to finish up a project, but they are not scheduled to arrive until December 5th.


I had my 2 $159.99 drives delivered yesterday. I planned to start the 6+ days of badblocks testing however we had a power outage today at work keeping me from that..
 
I had my 2 $159.99 drives delivered yesterday. I planned to start the 6+ days of badblocks testing however we had a power outage today at work keeping me from that..

Yeah, I can't wait for the badblocks testing again. Can you test two at once? Last time, I did one after the other. Took forever.
 
I am testing 2 at once. I use screen to switch between the two. Also I ssh into the linux box so I don't even need it to have a monitor connected. On work machines I have tested around 20 internal drives at the same time with badblocks.

https://www.rackaid.com/blog/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/

Code:
root@sysresccd /root % badblocks -wsv -b 4096 -c 1024 /dev/sdb
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
From block 0 to 1953506559
Testing with pattern 0xaa: done
Reading and comparing:  45.24% done, 20:24:39 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)

Code:
root@sysresccd /root % badblocks -wsv -b 4096 -c 1024 /dev/sdc
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
From block 0 to 1953506559
Testing with pattern 0xaa: ^Ndone
Reading and comparing:  46.39% done, 20:17:22 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)

I have a 80 mm case fan blowing against the back of the externals to reduce the temps. As you can see they hit 49C at that point I added the fan to stop the increase in temp.

Code:
root@sysresccd /root % for drive in b c; do smartctl --all -d sat /dev/sd${drive} | grep Temp; done
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   151   151   000    Old_age   Always       -       43 (Min/Max 22/49)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   158   158   000    Old_age   Always       -       41 (Min/Max 21/49)
 
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I am testing 2 at once. I use screen to switch between the two. Also I ssh into the linux box so I don't even need it to have a monitor connected. On work machines I have tested around 20 internal drives at the same time with badblocks.

https://www.rackaid.com/blog/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/

Code:
root@sysresccd /root % badblocks -wsv -b 4096 -c 1024 /dev/sdb
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
From block 0 to 1953506559
Testing with pattern 0xaa: done
Reading and comparing:  45.24% done, 20:24:39 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)

Code:
root@sysresccd /root % badblocks -wsv -b 4096 -c 1024 /dev/sdc
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
From block 0 to 1953506559
Testing with pattern 0xaa: ^Ndone
Reading and comparing:  46.39% done, 20:17:22 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)

I have a 80 mm case fan blowing against the back of the externals to reduce the temps. As you can see they hit 49C at that point I added the fan to stop the increase in temp.

Code:
root@sysresccd /root % for drive in b c; do smartctl --all -d sat /dev/sd${drive} | grep Temp; done
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   151   151   000    Old_age   Always       -       43 (Min/Max 22/49)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   158   158   000    Old_age   Always       -       41 (Min/Max 21/49)


Thanks!
 
OK, I have 4 of these drives now. I plan on a zfs storage pool for a total of 16 TB available. My server motherboard has an H67 chipset with 2 SATA III ports and 4 SATA II ports. Will I be limited at all by the SATA II with zfs on 4 of these?
 
For the record, it took just under 120 hours (5 days) for badblocks to finish.
 
Anyone here have any experience with creating a zfs pool on a linux server and making it accessible to a Windows machine? I have the zfs pool created with 4 of these drives and I can see it from Windows, but I'm unable to get any permissions pushed through to allow me to do anything other than read.
 
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