Re: md RAID with enterprise-class SATA or SAS drives

[Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/21/2012 10:19 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

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> But FYI, the new Seagate Barracuda 3TB ST3000DM001 drives I have here do
> *not* support this feature.  Has Seagate started crippling its
> consumer-grade drives?

*YES*

They started sometime before June of last year, when I purchased some
Barracuda Greens to upgrade from the Barracuda 7200.12 models I had been
using.

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> The Hitachi Deskstar HDS5C3030ALA630 *does* support scterc.

If you look up-thread to my first reply on May 10th, I reported exactly
this phenomenon, and that Hitachi is the only remaining player still
supporting it in consumer-grade drives.  (That I've found.  I'd love to
discover that other players are changing their minds.)

> Regards,
> 
> Brian.

Regards, and my condolences on your purchase of the ST3000DM001 drives.

Phil.
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