Re: Using WD Green drives in RAID/Mirror arrays...

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From what I understand, the green drives were created mostly for external
drive use where speed is not an issue. I would think the WD Black drives
would work better for a RAID system. As for a fix, I am not sure.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.info


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI,
>
>
>
> I've not proven this quantitatively yet, but I'm thinking that the reason
> I'm dropping a RAID array on a winbox is due to the use of green drives in
> the matrix.  Since they spin up and down the controller may not be
> detecting
> this correctly and marking them as failed.
>
>
>
> Anyone else had a change to deal with this issue?
>
>
>
> DR2
>
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