Re: WD "RED" drives - are they any good for mdadm?

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On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Drew wrote:

I personally have used a 4 pack of these hung off a LSI 9204 raid
controller and performance is okay but not spectacular. That'd be
because of the drives supposedly vary from 5400 to 7200 rpm depending

Nah, the variable spin speed was an misinterpretation of some blogs and article writers from reading the WD material.

It's fixed spin speed, but it might vary within the same series with different capacities. Most of the time it's 5400-5900 for this type of drive.

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