On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my >> videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing >> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. >> When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up as good? > > > As long as you don't use them in any kind of RAID setup you they should be > fine. > > The biggest difference between them and 'enterprise' class drives is the > enterprise class drives are designed for multi-drive RAID setups... you > don't want drives to spin down independently when working in a RAID setup... >
+1 I use the WD 1TB Green drive for storing video outside my machine using both USB & eSATA. Works fine. Very quite, cool. Way faster than necessary for streaming movies. Nice. 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. HTH, Mark
