Well, after running the Samsung disk for a few months now, the only good thing I can say about these drives would be they run cool. Sadly, the failure rate has been WAY to high with the Samsung HD154UI drive.

First impression with the Western Digital Caviar Green drives is hopefull, though sadly the drives seem to run abit warmer.

Below is a screen cap of the drive temps followed by drive model's. I ordered the same 2 WD disk, but oddly the model's are different.. heh.

The first WD drive (Channel 8) is currently involved in an array rebuild process, so it is running hotter than chanel 16, an idle WD disk.

All of the Samsung drives are involved in the array rebuild, so they are all busy disk.

Drive models

Drive temps

After doing some reading and hunting I wanted to post a quick blurb on how to migrate data between Volumes in OpenFiler. I've done this a few times when creating new shares and new RAID sets on my ARC-1260.

This approach uses RSync ( rsync documentation : rsync wikipedia )

In short the commands I used are.

rsync -rv /mnt/stor/data/files/ /mnt/san/media/files/ --progress --exclude BAD/ --ignore-existing --stats

-rv recursive (it will copy folders and subfolders) verbose

/mnt/stor/data/files source directory

/mnt/san/media/files destination directory

--progress display progress of the file copy

--exclude BAD/ anything in the directory BAD/ do not copy

--ignore-existing if a file already exists, skip

--stats dispaly file transfer stats

On average I've been getting 25MB-32MB moving data onto my 8 drive 1.5TB RAID 6 array, not shabby.

**Note this does not copy existing permissions, and those must be corrected.