Re: Supermicro SAS controller

[Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch>]

On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:05:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

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> His disks are fine.  The Marvell SAS driver is problem.  This is a
> thoroughly documented.  The mvsas driver is simply crap.

Something that the Supermicro support told me just came back into my mind 
and worries me: With the Norco RPC-4220 case I should use Enterprise 
grade disks.

Here's what they wrote:
> If the harddrives are Desktop grade then they cannot cope with the
> vibrations of a storage Server chassis nor 19" rack vibrations

But since I replaced all the ventilators with quiet ones that are mounted 
with some kind of rubber sticks instead of screws there shouldn't be much 
vibration. Or are the vibrating disks a problem?

Can I somehow observe how healthy they still are? Maybe with smartctl or 
something similar?

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Thanks again for all the information!
Ramon