<div dir="ltr">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?<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Just curious if anyone's using the WD Red drives in their backends? I read<br>
> somewhere that they were very reliable.<br>
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</div>Anecdotal reports will be unreliable. The advantage of the RED drives<br>
is that WD does not disable the ability in their firmware to set error<br>
recovery time limits, nor disable the ability in their firmware to set<br>
sleep timeouts to disabled. This of great importance for (especially)<br>
hardware RAID configurations(*). In addition the warrantee is slightly longer<br>
(less than what all drives used to be, but longer than their consumer<br>
drives). Much research with statistically significant numbers of drives<br>
suggest that drives tend to fail reasonably early, or last "forever". There<br>
are, of course, bad designs (can anyone say "DeathStar"? I knew you<br>
could :-), but usually those bad designs (and higher failure rates) are<br>
not seen until the drive is out in the field for a few years. Since new<br>
designs are introduced every year or so, even the most reliable vendors<br>
drive generation may have problems in the next generation (i.e. next<br>
years model). As WD RED is a branding, and not a particular model<br>
and generation of drive, the answer to "is it reliable" is going to be<br>
anecdotal.<br>
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Gary<br>
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(*) As with much else, your mileage will vary, but RAID configurations<br>
are usually not recommended for MythTV.<br>
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