On 30 Mar 2020, at 09:40, antlists [off-list ref] wrote:

On 29/03/2020 23:35, Roman Mamedov wrote:

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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:31:35 +0100
antlists [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 29/03/2020 18:45, crowston.name wrote:

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Device Model:     ST3000DM001-1CH166
Serial Number:    Z1F50Y21
Firmware Version: CC29

Seagate Barracuda :-( Not suitable as a raid drive.

Not suitable as a ...drive.
That model is literally the only hard drive in the world to get its own
Wikipedia article[1] for its awful reliability.

Well, I've got two of them, and they've been very reliable. Bear in mind that that batch was just after the floods that disrupted production, I suspect that quality slipped because demand was excessive. Later production seems to have been fine. Barracudas generally are just crap for raid.

I had 4 of them in an array, they are what made me decide that RAID5 was no longer a viable RAID level, two of them failed, within an hour of each other.

Even a hot spare would not have recovered in that time.

Matt.