[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[Ajay Sharma]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Brian Long wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
>> I recommend you read the following post and the associated TLER posts before putting WD Green drives in a RAID array:
>> http://shifteightgeneration.com/content/wdtler-fix-tler-setting-wd-desktop-hard-drives
>
> Depends on the type of RAID array one is using. TLER shouldn't really be a
> big deal with Linux software (md) RAID, as if it encounters a read error,
> it'll immediately try to read the sector from another device in the array
> and re-write it to the device that failed (search for 'read error' in the md
> manpage).  md doesn't timeout discs like some hardware controllers do:
> <http://osdir.com/ml/linux-raid/2009-09/msg00108.html>.

Thanks for this explanation.  I've been running a software raid-1
setup for about 15 months now with green drives and haven't had any
issues.  I figured that md was handling the lack of TLER fine but
haven't had a chance to look it up.

--Ajay