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

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:25, PJR <pjrobinson at metronet.co.uk> wrote:
> 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)

"Consumer" drives that support persistent TLER/ERC/CCTL
are not common.  There are discussions at the following
sites (extracted from one of the last posts to the first
link) regarding which drives support these.


HardForum: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1590200
StorageForum: http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php/topic/28333-tler-cctl/
Habrahabr (Russian blog?):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fblogs%2Fhardware%2F92701%2F