On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:39 PM, bofh <goodb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> I would avoid "green" drives like the plague. Check out the SMART >>> status on them and look at the drive park statistic among others. >>> Look at how high the number is, versus what the life time recommended >>> number... >> >> I would too if it were an enterprise setup. This is but a home setup >> built on a limited budget. > > Non-green drives are at the same price of green ones. Maybe not by > the same manufacturer, but I'm partial to Hitachis. Cheap and fast > and good (so they got bought out by WDC, and it'll be crappy soon). >
Not in Australia, and not Seagate, the only brand I will trust these days. A 2TB Green drive is AU$135, a 1TB non-green is $155. Oh, and the drives were bought second hand off a guy who (stupidly as he admits) bought them for a hardware RAID setup and had to take them out because the raid kept falling over as the drives went into sleep mode. Not a problem with software RAID/ZFS. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
