[mythtv-users] Western Digital Red for Myth

[Doug Lytle]

Craig Treleaven wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I've just had another hdd go bad on my Myth backend.  Maybe it is the 
> enclosures I've used but this has been a regular occurrence. 

I've gotten into the habit of running DBAN on the drives that I've 
purchased.

It takes a couple days to run though a 3TB drive, but I am hoping that 
it will show problems early on, before putting it into production by 
doing so.

Doug


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