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On May 9, 2012 7:36 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> As for RAID, +100 to not use them. The WD Green drives do not support |
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> time-limited error recovery (TLER) and spin down based on their view |
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> of trying to save power. For me anyway they simply didn't work well in |
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> any RAID configuration. I switched my home compute server to |
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> Enterprise drives which have worked perfectly for 2+ years. |
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I can understand how 'green' drives can fcuk up hardware RAID arrays. |
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But what about software RAID, e.g., dmraid? Can't we just configure it to |
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be 'more forgiving'? |
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Rgds, |
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