White Label HDD

[Sakuru]

I'm running 24 of those 2TB Hitachis in Work-Test. They've been wonderful. I've had them for about 6 months. The only issue I've had was 1 drive freaked out during burn-in.

They are all model HUA723020ALA641 running firmware version MK7OA840.

Code:

for i in {0..23}; do smartctl -a /dev/da$i | grep "Power_On_Hours"; done
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22424
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25798
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22460
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25810
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25619
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25791
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25791
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25811
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22461
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22490
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22409
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25811
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25792
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22460
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25721
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22461
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22489
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25855
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22461
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25792
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   25798
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   23627
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   22449
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0012   097   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   21368

 

[CookiesLikeWhoa]

...and just had a fifth disk fail a SMART self-test last night. The price is attractive, but I can't trust these.

Man that's not good. Besides the initial drop outs, have any others completely failed?

 

[danb35]

Only one of the disks has completely failed. The fifth one that failed a SMART test has now passed the last three.

 

[CookiesLikeWhoa]

Yeah these drives may be good as a scratch set, but having these for our main system doesn't seem to be wise. It's not mission critical but I'd rather not have to deal with the headache of replacing drives unnecessarily.