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Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by sjaak »

I remember these, zpool history provides a nice record here. First one failed within a year!

  zpool history tank | grep "zpool create\|replace"
  2013-03-26.23:27:40 zpool create -fo cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache -o altroot=/mnt tank raidz2 gpt/disk0.nop gpt/disk1.nop gpt/disk2.nop gpt/disk3.nop
  2014-01-18.19:00:41 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk3
  2014-01-19.09:59:45 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk1
  2014-11-30.14:44:59 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk2
  2015-09-13.21:16:11 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk1
  2016-01-03.15:37:40 zpool replace tank gpt/disk0

Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by geocrasher »

Koiwai wrote: post #9

Damn, I have a 12 disk RAID-Z2 with that, almost all of them failed in about 1~2 years, luckily because of Z2, I didn't lose any data. I'll never buy seagate again.

I bought a 500GB WD Green drive in 2010, and in 2011 I needed a second 500GB disk in a hurry. I went to a local supplier and all I could get was a Seagate 500GB disk. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

I retired them both earlier this year, replacing them with a single 2TB WD Blue drive to augment my SSD. They are both still fully functional, not so much as a SMART error.

I chalk it up to two things: The first is an extremely low number of power cycles. The second is that I never moved the computer thy were in until after they'd finished spinning down.

Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by segfaultbuserr »

Ha, it's one of the few HDDs that have their own Wikipedia pages [0], and even more so, it's one of the only two Seagate drives [1] - the other was the ST506/ST412, Seagate's first product! It just shows how infamous this 3 TB Seagate drive really is.

Other HDDs on Wikipedia include: IBM Deskstar (equally infamous), and other historical milestones like the DEC RK05 (classic HDD for PDP-8 and PDP-11).

I just hope the upcoming Heat-Assisted (Seagate) and Microwave-Assisted (Western Digital) Magnetic Recording drives won't repeat history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hard_disk_drives

[1] Several Seagate product families have their Wikipedia article, but ST3000DM001 and ST506 are the only two specific models.

Re: ST3000DM001

#14

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Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by NL807 »

I own a pair of those in RAID-1 mode, now retired. I upgraded the array start of this year, as one of the drives developed a fault. In all honesty, they operated continuously for 8 years without much of an issue, despite the reported flaws. They were pretty fast, too.

Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by atkbrah »

At my previous employer we had a 24 disk zfs storage server built using these disks (thanks to an external consultant who replaced enterprise grade disks because "they're basically the same").

While they were still under warranty we replaced 50% of them and after warranty 100% of them were replaced using another brand.

Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by edward »

In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices.

The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers.

The error rate was high, the drives didn't last long in production.

Re: ST3000DM001

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Post by opheliate »

geocrasher wrote: post #8
LeoPanthera wrote: post #4

I also remember the IBM Deskstar 75GXP, which was so unreliable it earned the nickname "Deathstar".

I worked at a small web hosting company back then, and we used a bunch of IBM Deathstar's. They certainly lived up to their name! I disassembled one just to see what went wrong, and I found the cause (of that drive's failure, at least). Here's a list of terms for reference: http://data-recovery-tips.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/h... At some point, the bearing that serves as the pivot that the actuator arm and act…

Ah man, there’s something about reading about physical hard drive failure that really makes me cringe. Really beautifully intricate technology, but man, when things come out of place…
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