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