On 25 September 2011 12:02, Marcin M. Jessa <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys. > > I was wondering if it's safe to use so called green drives in RAID 5 or RAID > 6 with md? > Drive such as Seagate Barracuda® Green 2TB ST2000DL003 or Western Digital > Caviar® Green™ 2TB WD20EARX have TLER off and reading misc forums I > understand that it would be a good idea to buy drives with that option > available. > On the other hand some people claim that Linux/Solaris/BSD based software > RAID may be able to work just fine with these drives. > > > > -- > > Marcin M. Jessa > -- > 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 > My 5x WD20EARS and 2x HD204UI (I think they're called? Samsung 2TB) are "green drives" and they work fine in a RAID6 setup. /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
