[mythtv-users] Going to add HD-- anyone with the WD 'green' sata drive?

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

I can't find the document. 

On Tue Mar 17 12:38 , Johnny  sent:

>I have post this to the list before, but the google hard drive failure
>study is a great reference for drive failure rates and causes:
>http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf. It is short and
>you can just skim over the charts and read some of their conclusions.
>Some of the interesting tid-bits are that heavy utilization doesn't
>correlate with higher failure rates (except in brand new or very old
>drives), and low temperatures rather than high temperatures correlate
>with higher failure rates. They say there were distinct models and
>vintages with significantly higher failure rates, but they wouldn't
>tell us any of those specifics.
>
>One metric I look at when thinking about performance and efficiency is
>areal density and the number of platters. When picking up a 1 TB
>drive, some will use 4x250 GB platters while others will use 2x500 GB
>platters. It is only 1 in many things that affect performance, but
>generally the higher density platters will have lower seek times and
>use less energy.
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