On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > A few years ago companies including Western Digital started shipping > large cheap drives, think of the "green" drives. These had very high > TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) settings, a.k.a. SCT ERC. Later > they completely took out the ability to configure this error recovery > timing so you only get the upward of 2 minutes to actually get a read > error reported by the drive.
Why sell an $80 hard drive when you can change a few bytes in the firmware and sell a crippled $80 drive and an otherwise-identical non-crippled $130 drive? -- Rich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
