On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: > Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >> green drives. [] >> - Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > > What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for > confirmation - that those energy saving drives change spinning and also do > spin down. The problem would be that the drives than might drop out of the > raid since they are not reachable fast. > > Don't know if that is true. I bought me some black label drives for the > longer warranty.
If it is a WD drive, google "TLER" for info about possible problems in RAID use.