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May 16th, 2011 20:00

PS6xx0E with 2TB SATA drives

Anybody using 2TB drives in their arrays yet? If so, how well are they holding up? We've got a bunch of PS5000E, 6000E, 6010E and a few 6500's with 1TB drives and have been pretty happy with them for their use, but have stayed away from the 2TB drives due to high failure rates on those drive types.

Have things smoothed out yet with the larger SATA disks?
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    sketchy001

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    Posted June 12th, 2011 20:00

    We have one PS6000e with the 1TB drives, and a newer PS4000e with 2TB drives. So far so good. The bigger problem recently has been the controllers in the PS6000e. Part of the problems appear to be with a particular rev number of the controllers (if you have one fail, and the diags show it's a particular rev number, Dell will replace it immediately). The other issue seems to be corrected with the recently released 5.0.7 firmware.
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    seanblee1

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    Posted June 21st, 2011 03:00

    We've had 3 drive failures in 6 months on two 16-drive 2TB arrays, so no, they're still pretty unreliable in my experience.

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