New hard disks installed

Shits finished at last, brand new raid+lvm partition setup has been completed (significantly better layout than before), everything important has been copied and the new disks are working perfectly.

Speeds are absolutely fucking unbelievable, sequential read/write speeds of 150-160MB/s per fucking disk and seek times are ~4ms. These might as well be fucking raptors. Seagate masterrace, no fucking idea how they have pulled this kind of performance out of a 7200rpm disk, without even particularly high density or 4k sectors.

http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/enterprise-capacity-3-5-hdd/ if anyone cares

Also seems as an unintended side effect, the website is a bit faster. No doubt the gameservers will perform better too.

And most importantly, these disks know how to behave themselves in a RAID and are built to 9000x higher standards. Incidentally, one review mentioned that they weigh 2x the average disk. But yeah, stability at last.

 

OH MY GOD THEY ARE PUSHING 350MB/s RANDOM READS IN RAID 1 WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE

 

Also hlstatsx and prophunt stats will be very significantly faster

 

I noticed already. Thank you, Boss Dark.

 

awkward boner

 

This is Dark we're talking about, lad.

It's not awkward at all. Honestly, I'd be more surprised if he wasn't nursing a half mast over all of this...

 

Update on this:

- Every backup job since the day the hard disks were installed has completed with 0 IO errors, a solid indication that all files are intact. Previously there would be an error every 3-4 days (and continually until fsck after that)
- Speeds still much higher
- Going by smart graphs, approx 5-10 read fails per day (proves the vibration theory), of course these are instantly corrected by ECC or a retry


tl;dr everything is gravy