On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:48:33 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > <[email protected]> wrote: >> just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason, >> should you buy WD "Green" drives. >> >> i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering that these drives, >> when pushed above a mere 40 Centigrade, become so unstable that they >> can actually become completely unresponsive, shut down, and leave the >> linux kernel in a completely unstable state, especially if they are >> part of a RAID1 mirror. > > For what it's worth, WD _does_ say not to use Green drives in RAID and > such. > > http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397
Good catch. But regardless WD statement, there is no compelling reason for a hard drive going down or start failing at 40℃, that's absurd. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
