RAID without TLER

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:51:35PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Based on anecdotes?  Based on long-obsolete models?  Of course you
> might be right.

Based on the firmware disasters on the 1 and 1.5TB drives, and the fact
that they couldn't even implement SATA correctly initially making them
incompatible with the most popular SATA controller early on (the Silicon
image ones).

> I personally hold a grudge against Seagate for how they handled the
> 7200.11 firmware bug.  That's not anecdote, that's observed behaviour
> of the company.

Yeah that one is a huge problem.

The crappy head park design on the laptop drive in my wife's laptop
didn't impress me either when a small bump made the drive tear the head
of using the head park mechanism (which is a flimsy piece of plastic).
Reading up on recovery methods for those drives found a lot of people
working in the recovery industry that certainly didn't have anything
nice to say about seagate laptop drives.

Seagate used to make really good drives.  I no longer think that is
their goal in life.

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Len Sorensen
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