On 11/18/10 18:23, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Harddrive speed is not so important so a 5400rpm drive
would be OK. Seems like the green line of WD harddrives use both 5400rpm and
7200rpm. I will use RAID 5.
I would stay away from the green series hard drives for this
application. There have been a number of reports of issues with the
drive's power saving design causing problems when used in raid arrays.
Search the list for more details. Use their black series instead.
While the WDC green drives are unsuitable for any RAID application
From my own personal experience, I will not use WD Green drives again,
be it for RAID or not.
I have a one as my boot up and OS drive on a home server configured as a
single drive in a ZFS pool (so none RAID). The load/unload cycle is
rated at 300,000.
Here is a copy from smartctl
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age
Always - 5958
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age
Always - 885346
The drive has less than 250 days online, but is nearly at tripple the
rated load/unload cycle.
While the drive is still working, I have NO faith in it anymore and am
just waiting for it to die.
Paul
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