Re: RAID HBA options

other forum members can speak to the Seagate issue too. but yes, it stems from the "fiasco" you refer to. the big issue is that discs with their faulty firmware had troubles in RAID systems. the drives did not work well in RAIDs because they would have slightly different spin up times, latency issues, etc. things that are incredibly small and don't matter as single drives, but are a huge issue in RAID systems.

the problem is that this issue has cropped up in drives that don't have the firmware that Seagate deems faulty. so you can't exercise the warranty because Seagate won't recognize that you have an issue. others on this forum have now sworn off Seagate completely. we all understand hard drive manufacturing issues, but Seagate's customer service during the whole ordeal left a bad taste. i have one previous installation where we used Seagate drives and we are very slowly replacing them. problem is, no one makes a 1.5TB drive that isnt a reduced power "green" drive. its difficult to take an installation of 1.5TB drives and replace them with 1TB drives when the client and his staff have become accustomed to the size of the RAID volume. the drives are fine used as single drives though.

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