Quote:
|
Originally Posted by jontz
I can't tell you for sure that an EIDE drive will or won't work. Different users have had different experiences. IDE always works though, seagate and hitatchi drives seem to be foolproof.
Don't spend the money on the 8MB cache. You are limited by the throughput on the NIC card in your snap, which is about 12MB/sec. That's waayyyy slower than the drive is capable of. More cache won't do anything to help you.
|
I need to chime in here on one "possible" issue about the WD drives and/or EIDE drives issues etc... My appologies for not picking up on this issue some of you have had sooner. While the problems may in fact be from EIDE drives and the RAID controller, this sounds to me more like a common issue you can find on PC's with PATA RAID. There has been an issue where Hard Disks get dropped from a RAID array on PCs. This quite often has to do with Timeouts caused by idle acoustic features. I suspect this is the problem within the Snap Servers as well when drives keep getting dropped from a RAID Array. Timing is everything in a RAID array.
Go here for a little more information from WD
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1
If this massive link does not work, go to WD Knowledge Base Answer ID 913
The solution is to go in and turn off the acoustic feature of the drive. This has also been seen in other manufacturers drives. Sometimes those fancy features to make things "better" can cause issues with RAID arrays where timing is important.
I hope this helps and clears up some people's issues with their Snap Servers.
Yes, I am lazy and partialy quoted myself from another message thread. ;-)