[CentOS] hard drive question - WD red

[Tom Bishop]

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
>
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