On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason, > should you buy WD "Green" drives. > > i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering that these drives, > when pushed above a mere 40 Centigrade, become so unstable that they > can actually become completely unresponsive, shut down, and leave the > linux kernel in a completely unstable state, especially if they are > part of a RAID1 mirror.
For what it's worth, WD _does_ say not to use Green drives in RAID and such. http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397 mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+t9iMz0MDct83sEEwXn4mZh2q=vbsypm52nhk5ju+awxpy...@mail.gmail.com
