I was planning on looking into this after Christmas but here are a few things I have run into.
1. The WD "Y" drives (the TLR limited, RAID specific ones ... both RE2 and RE3 version) performed much slower than Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000, by far. This was on WS2003 32bit, WS2008R2 and ESXi 4 using Adaptec 3405 Sata RAID controllers. The adaptec 3405 / Hitachi Ultrastar combo has proven itself for us with ~100 users. 2. For another need (5 users, small business that is) I was going to look into the Terrastation but find many comments of slowness and I don't like the "OS" being on the HDD's. But they have a really cool neat-o feature that if you buy two of these you can set up live replication. I was considering this for my Mom and Pop's business - so it's a little more heavy duty than "plain home use". But the price is not much higher than the adaptec controller above and HDD's. IIRC they had another feature that you could attach a USB drive for backup. 3. Because of #2, I was looking at the Netgear products. Netgear had some sort of replication, I forget what it is, but I don't know if it's as whiz-bang neat-o as the Buffalo implementation. 4. All my home machines have RAID of some sort using *GASP* Promise raid controllers and old hard drives that I just had laying around! But alas I have outgrown the capacity and want to upgrade to something else. 5. I may just get the cheapo USB/eSata RAID 1 array (Fantom G-Force MegaDisk) and be done with it! Again, I was going to look at this in about a week, but there ya go. hth and Merry Christmas all, Devin On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <jra...@eaglemds.com> wrote: > "Anyone else using WD desktop drives in RAID and messed with TLER (or > regretted not messing with it)?" > > Or, for that matter, regretted messing with it? > > (I'm sure it was implied, but I figured it worthwhile to ask the > pseudo-obvious.) > > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE > Technology Coordinator > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA > jra...@eaglemds.com > www.eaglemds.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:15 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? > > Wow, I can get 4 1TB drives for $64.99? ;) > > I've been hearing lately about "Time Limited Error Recovery" (TLER) feature > in WD drives, which is disabled by default in their "desktop drives". It > should be enabled to allow the RAID controller to handle recovery, else the > RAID controller will timeout the drive and drop it from the set. I've had a > pair of WD10EADS green drives in RAID 1 for about a year with no trouble, > but I'm wondering if I should try to tweak the TLER before there is trouble. > WD provides no means of tweaking it, but the community has provided a > utility, WDTLER, that can tweak it on some drives but not others. > > Anyone else using WD desktop drives in RAID and messed with TLER (or > regretted not messing with it)? > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 11:52 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? > > 3TB Raid on the cheap: > > 1x SansDigital 4-Bay enclosure (eSATA or USB) in raid 5 - $169.99 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111159 > > 4x Western Digital Green 1TB drives - $64.99 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Slattery > [mailto:slattery_...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 > 05:56:55 -0800 > >> I recently started taking a lot of photos and videos, and I'm realizing > that >> my current storage solution at home isn't going to cut it very soon. >> >> Does anyone have a recommendation for a good price/performance RAID >> enclosure (or populated solution) for home use? I'd like to have 3-4TB >> available if possible. >> >> Thanks, and Happy Holidays! >> >> Jim > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL > and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, > disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message > may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as > recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this > message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from > your computer. 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