[mythtv-users] A Myther can dream, right?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 18 August 2014 10:49, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> No point to spending the extra on Red drives unless you're actually putting
> them in a hardware RAID array. Their only purpose is to abort data recovery
> measures early, before a hardware RAID array boots the drive for being
> unresponsive.

This is not entirely correct.

TLER isn't useful just for raid hardware, it has uses under most
software RAID and OS too. For example while mdadm will literally wait
forever. the underlying kernel disk subsystem will only wait 30s
without TLER and drop the drive completely after that.

Red also gives you longer warranty