From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SS64A-0003pL-QB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2012 12:32:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C52EE0850; Wed, 9 May 2012 12:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f46.google.com (mail-qa0-f46.google.com [209.85.216.46]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A6CE058E for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 12:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadb17 with SMTP id b17so1345899qad.19 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 05:29:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LP+2yqO/Zwv39txquAHXBmDDVrqFTNAwdFPpTsi20/k=; b=w28SbcvcfxugrSjgArDkU8mgwbicYP0klXqBDOfiEZNuaa2jG/unCxaSZ70V1aSGpg SpjuOWh5mxXh+i0qQhQpU6+8BtB2fnmv8Mr3heGinyHGcdq9aCVG3kLcExNqY4M537hF EXCP3iGR4BPgbl6mYqvmKq60DvvThONkqgnDOtC9k6dhawlgceLat3tbjpwXhFzjIv5w yOcTHj0muk7eHjS+pAbHe80zSyGVpXupZQv72UUSwHg0iVC1pwrd2zsIMiTnGLQzIGOS l8Fe+vLN9lFEArJWPKQ/A6itoT+4rrgjEl2eH+wsMXVxnBJcapWNTqQ3RST+sKuv0E3c GI+A== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.97.132 with SMTP id l4mr4752458qan.15.1336566568500; Wed, 09 May 2012 05:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.236.136 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2012 05:29:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FAA595A.4040202@libertytrek.org> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <4FAA595A.4040202@libertytrek.org> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 05:29:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bcc84350-29ba-4def-b3cd-8c056bdeeda2 X-Archives-Hash: a07ceaaac04cd16338c9cfdc65822166 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote= : > On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale 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