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