[mythtv-users] 2 TB Hard Drive Recommendations

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 21:02:04 UTC 2010


> Note that Green drives are not recommended for raid arrays because of timing
> out and goofing your raid array.  WD's "RE" (RAID Edition) HDDs support
> Time-Limited Error Recovery ("TLER" ):
>
> More info here:
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/251076-32-raid-issues-western-digital-hard-disk
>
> I went WD Black RE's and they are speedy and have been reliable.
>

TLER is not necessary on linux software raid or zfs raid. It is needed
on hardware raid or on windows software raid.

John


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