From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Lr4-0006tu-Ju for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:28:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D819FE0552; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD77E0552 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyg14 with SMTP id 14so4122118qyg.19 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:27:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=hhtdXHnWrngTIV3lYYrY2GDT+mUf0/+77fEzmi8/Xa8=; b=upaeHvSSNWEYUDELSCc1Zr5WkhxNwjWrRdtQuczec0ijinN66iASwCtOa5ebkGTSDU 2s70zixHOdYMAwT6J57fixCrvG4cnaDnKC9Ss8SmUPHg8lZ3wTW90r7hvz9T8/IwrsyE 4RPMSmtG1HsE2DLbku5mgw8iHcN6KTUBYoXDw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=m/qaVf2AVRlqbqkQqPEzdgpPKqkcy9eKBFJQeXtv9HF6Opze8pdXml895weIoeJjeY 66rgMuUoQX3h1ERY6ncuzW/0OY8xkYEuVOWewQr+4FnpHaL6g0zUfAuIz1E8RlkcZHL6 QfEvm0CCfQ8ae4Z/mcuiyGDQyY4vRWhNTVuy4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.73.95 with SMTP id p31mr4499217qcj.34.1302546444096; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.227.71 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:27:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201104092100.19783.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201104092100.19783.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:27:24 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: G9ssdIdUZcOaOBHdkUc2Dncu6lg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f94dda3ccf0073c857800acf338824f3 On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't > notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks. > > I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3 more to > make a more robust system, what advice would I receive? My boot/root/home is on one: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM Then I have a RAID5 for storage made up of five: SAMSUNG EcoGreen F3 HD203WI 2TB 5400 RPM So far I've been using it for a year 24/7 with no problems. hdparm is able to set them so they never spin down. Otherwise it seems to be fast and they don't have funny sector sizes or anything.