+1 I agree 100%
I have a website whose ZFS Home File Server articles are read around 1 million times a year, and so far I have recommended Western Digital drives wholeheartedly, as I have found them to work flawlessly within my RAID system using ZFS. With this recent action by Western Digital of disabling the ability to time-limit the error reporting period, thus effectively forcing consumer RAID users to buy their RAID-version drives at 50%-100% price premium, I have decided not to use Western Digital drives any longer, and have explained why here: http://breden.org.uk/2009/05/01/home-fileserver-a-year-in-zfs/ (look in the Drives section) Like yourself, I too am searching for consumer-priced drives where it's still possible to set the error reporting period. I'm also looking at the Samsung models at the moment -- either the HD154UI 1.5TB drive or the HD203WI 2TB drives... and if it's possible to set the error reporting time then these will be my next purchase. They have quite good user ratings at newegg.com... If WD lose money over this, they might rethink their strategy. Until then, bye bye WD. Cheers, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
