Thoughts on Raid 1 config?

[dandelioneater]

I have 2x1TB WD green EARS drives in raid 1. No issues and they run cool.

[jtktam]

Originally Posted by Masteroderus

If you go WD go black.

My 1TB WD black has lasted a long time without any probelms, ever.

WD Black drive 2TB almost $180
Seagate Barrcuda 7200rpm = $120

when you buy 24 drives in a tray like me.. the $60 x 24 = $1440!

Originally Posted by enaberif

Don't need speed for RAID as your usually doing it for storage.

true dat.. but don't use Greens or Blues either

Originally Posted by dandelioneater

I have 2x1TB WD green EARS drives in raid 1. No issues and they run cool.

in your pc? i run seagate greens

-joe

[enaberif]

Greens and Blues are absolutely FINE to use in RAID setups. I've setup a few RAID 5 arrays with Greens and had no issues. Like I said make sure you change the idle time on the greens.

[Silent_Avenger]

Originally Posted by jtktam

don't bite my head off

Sorry if it sounded like that but I didn't mean to. I'm also wondering the track record of the 3TB drives from WD. From what I've been seeing it's the 2TB drives that were problematic. Also about the spin down time I've actually changed that on my green drive because I hated the spin up time on it. Maybe that could be why I haven't had any problems?

[jtktam]

Originally Posted by enaberif

Greens and Blues are absolutely FINE to use in RAID setups. I've setup a few RAID 5 arrays with Greens and had no issues. Like I said make sure you change the idle time on the greens.

depending on your usage patterns, i agree that almost any drive can be used. but there are instances where even if you change the idle time on the WD greens that they still drop out of the array.. and the greens are slower, so when it comes to rebuild due to raid failures, they take FOREVER..

with RAID 5, you cannot lose another drive during rebuild.. using 2tb Seagate LP drives in my QNAP server in RAID 6, it takes 15-16 hours to rebuild..

if you only use RAID 5, you are EXPOSED to another failure for 15-16 hours.. also pray that you don't lose power in that time

i have used over 12 different NAS boxes with over 200 hard drives, and WD (except for RE drives) gave me the most problems.. that's my opinion / observation..

-joe