<div dir="ltr">WD Green don't play nicely with Linux avoid them<br><div><br><a href="https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73573">https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73573</a><br><br></div><div>Backblaze are one of the few companies to publish detailed real world analisys of HD usage and failure rates and most of their drives are ordinary consumer grade drives. Read the articles and take your pick.<br>
<br><a href="http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/">http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/</a><br><br></div><div>Jim <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 July 2014 17:44, Ian Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank">dheianevans@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 dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>After facing a 2nd green drive failure since January, I began dreaming of using SSDs as long-term storage. Just curious if anyone's using them as storage for video libraries.<br>
<br></div>Realize the initial cost is higher, but I'm assuming over the long term the savings would be seen through:<br><br></div>- lower power usage<br></div>- lower heat<br></div>- time cost (not having to re-rip libraries every time a drive fails)<br>
</div><div>- etc :-)<br></div><div><br></div>If the drive is configured not to be a recording drive, so essentially there's just the writes as you add your DVDs/Blu-rays, wouldn't the lifetime be very, very good?<br>
<br></div>Also, since I have non-green drives that have happily been running for over a decade as opposed to the multiple green losses I've endured over the last four years, should I just be avoiding greens?<br></div>
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