> From what I've read (assuming I understand correctly) they are a low-ish > vibration drive with some fancy head positioning for alignment... but > should be limited to 5 at most, or at least are intended for upto 5 > drive systems, so I wonder if this means that more than 5 could suffer > from vibrations throwing disks out? No. RED's are a consumer drive with TLER enabled so it plays well in small NAS units. To protect their enterprise sales, they put an artificial limitation of 4-5 drives per NAS in the warranty terms. -- Drew -- 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