I see a really good price, and better for quantity, for 3TB drives. Now,
I've been down on WD for a couple of years, since I found that they'd
protected certain h/d parms from being changed (like TLER). The ones I'm
looking at are the Red, which seems to be a new color (at least to me),
and one technical review I've read says that they're intended for NAS,
etc, and you can adjust those parms. They're *not* supposed to be
"enterprise" or server grade, but it sounds like they'd work with
RAID.
Anyone know anything about them?
mark, checking before I buy
They are made more for the soho environment, not sure I would even use them there. If its critical enough for RAID environment then I would use the enterprise class drives WD-RE or the Seagate equiv. IIRC they were not even spinning those at 7200rpm, i just pony up for the good ones, and I'm cheap ;) On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> I see a really good price, and better for quantity, for 3TB drives. Now, > I've been down on WD for a couple of years, since I found that they'd > protected certain h/d parms from being changed (like TLER). The ones I'm > looking at are the Red, which seems to be a new color (at least to me), > and one technical review I've read says that they're intended for NAS, > etc, and you can adjust those parms. They're *not* supposed to be > "enterprise" or server grade, but it sounds like they'd work with RAID. > > Anyone know anything about them? > > mark, checking before I buy > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:50 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> I see a really good price, and better for quantity, for 3TB drives. Now, > I've been down on WD for a couple of years, since I found that they'd > protected certain h/d parms from being changed (like TLER). The ones I'm > looking at are the Red, which seems to be a new color (at least to me), > and one technical review I've read says that they're intended for NAS, > etc, and you can adjust those parms. They're *not* supposed to be > "enterprise" or server grade, but it sounds like they'd work with RAID. > > Anyone know anything about them?I ran across some forum posts indicating they are unlikely to work in arrays of greater than five disks. This is alluded to in the spec sheet as well. http://www.avsforum.com/t/1454542/issue-with-wd-red-drives http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771442.pdf -- Dan Young