Stability of ICH7 sata on FreeBSD 6.1 ?

[Mike Jakubik]

Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> I have same problem on ASUS RS120 with Seagate ST3250820AS/3.AAC 
> drives (disk loses, system reboots, slow read/write speed), but I 
> think this is drive problem - all drives has high 
> Reallocated_Sector_Ct value in SMART (above 130 reallocated sectors 
> after few weeks, some drives has more then 100 after few days).
> Please let me now, if you also have nonzero Reallocated_Sector_Ct in 
> smartctl -A output.
> I will test those servers with brand new Samsung drives, hope that it 
> helps.

I don't think you have the same problem, in your case it sounds like a 
bad hard drive. On my servers, all the hard drives are less than two 
months old, and are completely error free according to SMART.