On 4/14/2010 3:53 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Stefan *St0fF* Huebner wrote: >> Am 25.03.2010 18:45, schrieb Asdo: >> >>> David Lethe wrote: >>> >>>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Andrew Dunn wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Recently Dell is selling their WD20EARS (2TB) for 90$ >>>>> >>>>> This being one of the best PPG (Price Per Gigabyte) snatches I have >>>>> seen, I was considering buying 8 of them for an mdadm array. >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone had experience with these drives? I believe that these disks only come in the "green" variety. I recently picked up a 1.5 tb version for testing and cheap bulk storage, and I would not suggest using them in a raid array because the green drives firmware automatically parks the head after 8 seconds of inactivity and reduces the rpm of the disk. The constant parking can quickly wear out the head under high use and there is no way to disable this "feature". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
