Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/23/13, Dan Young danielmyoung@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I was concerned since we've been using Reds in our newer servers.
However, the conclusion of that thread seems to put that particular issue firmly on an odd incompatibility with the Asrock motherboard used and the WD Red drives. One of the posters pointed out he has 12 Reds on a single Adaptec.
Somebody suggests possibly an issue with 6 drives being spread over 2 different controllers. I couldn't help wonder if it's just a Windows driver thing.
Oh, good, someone actually running Reds. How long have you had them, and have you had any issues? I'm not actually worried about RAID - we have a very few servers with RAID 1, and I think they're all software RAID. The big RAIDs, we bought the boxes with drives. We'd be using them for servers, and backups.
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