[mythtv-users] Red drives

[Ian Evans]

So what's the current word on the Greens? I have a 1.5TB model, but I
remember a thread a while back that people were cautious about using them
with Myth. If you were looking for a 2TB/4TB drives these days for
recordings, what would you go with?


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just curious if anyone's using the WD Red drives in their backends? I
> read
> > somewhere that they were very reliable.
>
> Anecdotal reports will be unreliable.  The advantage of the RED drives
> is that WD does not disable the ability in their firmware to set error
> recovery time limits, nor disable the ability in their firmware to set
> sleep timeouts to disabled.  This of great importance for (especially)
> hardware RAID configurations(*).  In addition the warrantee is slightly
> longer
> (less than what all drives used to be, but longer than their consumer
> drives).  Much research with statistically significant numbers of drives
> suggest that drives tend to fail reasonably early, or last "forever".
>  There
> are, of course, bad designs (can anyone say "DeathStar"?  I knew you
> could :-), but usually those bad designs (and higher failure rates) are
> not seen until the drive is out in the field for a few years.  Since new
> designs are introduced every year or so, even the most reliable vendors
> drive generation may have problems in the next generation (i.e. next
> years model).  As WD RED is a branding, and not a particular model
> and generation of drive, the answer to "is it reliable" is going to be
> anecdotal.
>
> Gary
>
> (*) As with much else, your mileage will vary, but RAID configurations
> are usually not recommended for MythTV.
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