[CentOS] hard drive question - WD red
Dan Young
danielmyoung at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 15:25:28 UTC 2013
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
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Dan Young
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