Sure but if you read WD on documentation on at least parity RAID requirements, that specify URE 10^15, and these list out to 10^14. If you are going to run RAID 5 or 6 with the 3gb disks, sounds like that might not be the best situation but something to think about.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > Tom Bishop wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM, <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > > > >> I see a really good price, and better for quantity, for 3TB drives. Now, > >> I've been down on WD for a couple of years, since I found that they'd > >> protected certain h/d parms from being changed (like TLER). The ones I'm > >> looking at are the Red, which seems to be a new color (at least to me), > >> and one technical review I've read says that they're intended for NAS, > >> etc, and you can adjust those parms. They're *not* supposed to be > >> "enterprise" or server grade, but it sounds like they'd work with RAID. > >> > >> Anyone know anything about them? > > > They are made more for the soho environment, not sure I would even use > > them there. If its critical enough for RAID environment then I would > use the > > enterprise class drives WD-RE or the Seagate equiv. IIRC they were not > > even spinning those at 7200rpm, i just pony up for the good ones, and I'm > > cheap ;) > > Yeah, well, I work for a federal contractor, so this is your and my tax > dollars (and when someone starts spouting that all feds spend money like > water, I'm going give them a cluex4...). > > But, after reading your comments, and looking and seeing a similar comment > on Tom's Hardware, I called their support - they even have a tech support > 24x7 specifically for red, and the tech, when I asked, didn't even blink > when he told me it was 7200 full speed.... > > And have you looked at the price for server grade anything? They want 2-3 > times the base price. > > Thanks, though, for such a quick response... and helping push me to call. > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
