[mythtv-users] warning for anyone with western digital green drives

[PJR]

Now that the supplier of my failing 1TB WD Caviar Green discs has agreed
to give me a full refund, I'm looking for recommendations for 1TB drives
to be used as a RAID 1 array.  If possible I'd like them to be: 1) ok
for RAID; 2) low cost; 3) quiet; 4) low power. I'm considering two
drives from different manufacturers or two discs from the same
manufacturer but different suppliers to avoid the "two faulty discs from
the same batch" problem (which is what I think I had with the WD Caviar
Green discs).  Any suggestions?



On 11/02/12 08:45, Karl Dietz wrote:
>> Bottom line: anecdotal evidence is useless.  You can get a bad batch of
>> any brand or model of drive.  Your best defense against failures in a
>> RAID array is to mix and match batches and models.
> Fwiw, someone who runs lots of consumer grade hard disks was unable to
> correlate failure rate to drive manufacturer or models...
>
> See research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
>
> Regards,
> Karl
>
> PS: I've personally seen professional grade disk batches fail in the
> very same way as I've seen consumer grade disk batches fail.
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