On May 9, 2012 7:36 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As for RAID, +100 to not use them. The WD Green drives do not support
> time-limited error recovery (TLER) and spin down based on their view
> of trying to save power. For me anyway they simply didn't work well in
> any RAID configuration. I switched my home compute server to
> Enterprise drives which have worked perfectly for 2+ years.
>

I can understand how 'green' drives can fcuk up hardware RAID arrays.

But what about software RAID, e.g., dmraid? Can't we just configure it to be 'more forgiving'?

Rgds,