On 13 June 2011 19:30, Tim Blundell <tim.blundell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 6/11/2011 5:49 AM, Mathias BurÃn wrote: >> >> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === >> Model Family: Â Â Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format) family >> Device Model: Â Â WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 >> Serial Number: Â ÂWD-WMAZ20188479 >> Firmware Version: 50.0AB50 >> User Capacity: Â Â2,000,398,934,016 bytes >> Device is: Â Â Â ÂIn smartctl database [for details use: -P show] >> ATA Version is: Â 8 >> ATA Standard is: ÂExact ATA specification draft version not indicated >> Local Time is: Â ÂSat Jun 11 10:48:05 2011 IST >> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. >> SMART support is: Enabled > > Not certain if this was mentioned. While WDC WD20EARS drives can be used in > an RAID array, WD recommends using there RAID capable drives in an > enterprise environment. > I tried using same drives in a simple RAID-1 array and had serious > performance issues (sync taking a week) and stalls when writing to disk. Are > you using the stock firmware on these drives? > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I'm using stock firmware as far as I know (I've not flashed them manually), and I experience no performance issues. Of course, my system is limited (RAID6 with an Intel Atom), so I can't really push them all out to test it. But still, no issues. /M -- 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
