[mythtv-users] Western Digital Red for Myth
Craig Treleaven
ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Sat Aug 24 15:57:59 UTC 2013
At 7:49 AM -0700 8/24/13, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>....
>> What say you?
>
>WD Red are primary consumer drives with TLER enabled
At 10:49 AM -0400 8/24/13, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>... the RED drives are nothing more than a change in firmware and a
>longer warranty. Specifically, they enable TLER, so that if they're
>stalled trying to exhaustively recover data, they cancel the attempt
>before a hardware RAID array rejects them as faulted. If you're not
>running hardware RAID, there's really no point to getting "NAS
>friendly" drives.
So, what do you recommend? Simply look for the cheapest cost per GB?
I'd pay a bit of a premium for drives that will last 5+ years.
BTW, the other thing I meant to mention was heat. The Tom's review
points out that these drives run cooler by 4 degrees Celsius compared
to regular desktop drives. (Which makes sense with the lower
rotation speed and reduced power consumption.) Heat generally equals
reduced life.
Craig
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