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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote=
:
> On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my
>> videos on, eventually. =C2=A0The prices are coming down now. =C2=A0I kee=
p seeing
>> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays.
>> =C2=A0When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up as goo=
d?
>
>
> As long as you don't use them in any kind of RAID setup you they should b=
e
> fine.
>
> The biggest difference between them and 'enterprise' class drives is the
> enterprise class drives are designed for multi-drive RAID setups... you
> don't want drives to spin down independently when working in a RAID setup=
...
>
+1
I use the WD 1TB Green drive for storing video outside my machine
using both USB & eSATA. Works fine. Very quite, cool. Way faster than
necessary for streaming movies. Nice.
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.
HTH,
Mark