Am 15.03.2011 07:50, schrieb Matthew Marlowe: > >> My problem is that LVM2 is not supported in parted which is the >> recommended tool to deal with this. >> >> I suspect I only need to map the individual PE to a particular start >> sector on each drive, not btrfs, but then there is stripe/block sizes to >> consider as well ... WD also are recommending 1mb sector boundaries for >> best performance - I can see a reinstall coming up :) >> > > I have on my workstation: > 2 WD 2TB Black Drives > 5 WD 2TB RE4 Drives > > Some notes: > - The black drives have horrible reliability, poor sector remapping, and have > certain standard drive features to make them unusable in raid. I would not > buy them again. I'm not sure how similar the green drives are.
Green drives also seem to be affected: http://doug.warner.fm/d/blog/2009/11/Western-Digital-15TB-Green-Drives-Not-your-Linux-Software-RAID
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