[mythtv-users] Red drives

Fred Watt fredwattmythtv at gmail.com
Sun May 26 20:45:37 UTC 2013


On 26/05/13 21:37, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> I stick with WD Blue.  They've been reliable for me.
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> Gerald
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> From: "Ian Evans" <dheianevans at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:20:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Red drives
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> So what's the current word on the Greens? I have a 1.5TB model, but I remember a thread a while back that people were cautious about using them with Myth. If you were looking for a 2TB/4TB drives these days for recordings, what would you go with?
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> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Gary Buhrmaster < gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com > wrote:
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> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Ian Evans < dheianevans at gmail.com > wrote:
>> Just curious if anyone's using the WD Red drives in their backends? I read
>> somewhere that they were very reliable.
> Anecdotal reports will be unreliable. The advantage of the RED drives
> is that WD does not disable the ability in their firmware to set error
> recovery time limits, nor disable the ability in their firmware to set
> sleep timeouts to disabled. This of great importance for (especially)
> hardware RAID configurations(*). In addition the warrantee is slightly longer
> (less than what all drives used to be, but longer than their consumer
> drives). Much research with statistically significant numbers of drives
> suggest that drives tend to fail reasonably early, or last "forever". There
> are, of course, bad designs (can anyone say "DeathStar"? I knew you
> could :-), but usually those bad designs (and higher failure rates) are
> not seen until the drive is out in the field for a few years. Since new
> designs are introduced every year or so, even the most reliable vendors
> drive generation may have problems in the next generation (i.e. next
> years model). As WD RED is a branding, and not a particular model
> and generation of drive, the answer to "is it reliable" is going to be
> anecdotal.
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> Gary
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> (*) As with much else, your mileage will vary, but RAID configurations
> are usually not recommended for MythTV.
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Be careful if using raid - use the reds.
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