Re: debian9/raid1 assembly/unexpected failure opening device

On 31 Aug 2017, Wols Lists uttered the following:

On 31/08/17 14:51, Joel Walberg wrote:

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While I hadn't seen that section on the Wiki, it's certainly something
that I'll be using to decide my next purchase after fully reading the
links that are provided there.

I keep on intending to add a page for the smartctl information sections
from various drives, just haven't got round to it ...

There seem to be three main classes of raid drives out there, WD Reds,
Seagate  NASs, and Toshiba N300 raid drives. Everybody seems to buy
Reds, I've only recently seen NASs,

And higher-end drives too: e.g. Seagate Constellations and the like.

                They all seem to cost about 50% more than the basic
desktop drives, but that's still amazingly cheap ...

... until you need to buy lots of them. :)

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On 12/09/17 23:37, Nix wrote:

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                They all seem to cost about 50% more than the basic

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desktop drives, but that's still amazingly cheap ...

... until you need to buy lots of them. :)

I'm just thinking back to my first disk drive. I paid £200 for a WD
bigfoot. It was a 5400rpm 5 1/4 drive - marketed as "cheapest cost per
MB available". And how big was it? Just *six* *giga*bytes, I think my
current pair of 3TB drives cost me less than that - 3 orders of
magnitude more storage, for less money.

Cheers,
Wol