[mythtv-users] Recent Drive Purchase from Newegg -- (10x WD2002FAEX-0)

Mark Lord mythtv at rtr.ca
Fri May 27 13:04:21 UTC 2011


On 11-05-26 11:35 AM, Travis Tabbal wrote:
..
> The only reason I won't do WD right now for RAID is their stupid error handling
> code that causes the drive to not respond long enough to get faulted out of the
> array at times. Just report the error and let the OS deal with it... pffffttt


That's why they sell "RE" (Raid Edition) drives --> different firmware tweaks
for faster failbacks.  There's even a utility floating around somewhere to
toggle the setting, allowing "non-RE" drives to become "RE" drives,
and vice versa.

cheers


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