Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 08:31:29 -0500 From: Scott Hemphill Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: Which hard drive for raid1 for 24x7 machine References: <6tkvrcxvh4.ln2@phoenix.vfire> <0v40scxdj9.ln2@phoenix.vfire> Reply-To: hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:31:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87y49d46of.fsf@hemphills.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zs/gOlw0cxOFqDZQXGVCCQcmCjc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-yogrOJGmeBrDSG2flvKXI5O2fHmV8sXnRw9ilmTp2voO8hbboNdgZf1roKEcjp2TG4LvW4f2LNu10nk!eo9FVNKysTQnFxZy1YmoI7Z1TU7OSiAVD8CcNTfcPlk2GV+MgPchmFk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2001 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:3036 Charlie Gibbs writes: [snip] > I can add a few more data points - not too many, because the drives last > so damned long. I'm a believer in 24/7 operation - fewer power surges, > fewer chances for stiction, less thermal cycling... I can add another data point. I am very much in favor of the WD Red drives. I burned out a bunch of Seagate drives before I switched to WD Red in my two 8-drive RAID6 arrays. I believe the TLER (time limited error recovery) is important for RAID. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Western-Digital-Green-vs-Red-Hard-Drives-602/ Scott -- Scott Hemphill hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu "This isn't flying. This is falling, with style." -- Buzz Lightyear