[mythtv-users] warning for anyone with western digital green drives

[PJR]

Agreed, yes I should refine what I meant by 'ok for RAID'. 
Firstly I'll be using s/w RAID and yes if in order to configure the
drives for RAID then:

* ability to shorten retry timers
* ability to disable idle timers
* error rates (unrecoverable/recoverable)

must be configurable from Ubuntu relatively simply, eg cl program readily available (and by doing so does not break any warranties).

Does that help to suggest which drives might be suitable?

And I thought a RAID set up was going to be easy!






On 15/02/12 15:29, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 01:40, PJR <pjrobinson at metronet.co.uk> wrote:
>> .... If possible I'd like them to be: 1) ok for RAID;
> You probably need to define what you mean by "ok" here.
>
> Some criteria that might matter include:
> * ability to shorten retry timers
> * ability to disable idle timers
> * vibration damping
> * rotational/seek speeds
> * error rates (unrecoverable/recoverable)
> * what drives are "certified" for any controller
>   you might be using.
>
> Note that the error retry rates are sometimes
> claimed to be one of the reasons that "consumer"
> drives are not always an ideal match for RAID.
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