On May 9, 2012 7:36 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As for RAID, +100 to not use them. The WD Green drives do not support > time-limited error recovery (TLER) and spin down based on their view > of trying to save power. For me anyway they simply didn't work well in > any RAID configuration. I switched my home compute server to > Enterprise drives which have worked perfectly for 2+ years. >
I can understand how 'green' drives can fcuk up hardware RAID arrays. But what about software RAID, e.g., dmraid? Can't we just configure it to be 'more forgiving'? Rgds,
