On 9/14/2012 4:48 AM, Pertti Kosunen wrote: > On 14.9.2012 2:45, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Consumer hard drives will not work with most RAID cards. As a general >> rule, RAID cards require enterprise SATA drives or SAS drives. > > http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 > http://www.anandtech.com/show/6157/ > > Western Digitals new Red series is RAID-compatible.
Yes, and as such these drives do not fall into the consumer category. Note they are marketed specifically for SOHO NAS boxen. While they do offer programmable TLER/ERC timeout with a suitable default of 7 seconds, they're not a good fit for anyone who desires performance along with capacity, due to the slow 5400 RPM spindle speed. In such a case one's money is probably better spent buying a smaller quantity of 7.2K RE4 or other enterprise SATA drives for about the same $$. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50531cff.6080...@hardwarefreak.com
