Re: Using WD Green drives in RAID/Mirror arrays... -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: Using WD Green drives in RAID/Mirror arrays...
From: Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:01:47 -0700
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Don wrote:

I've not proven this quantitatively yet, but I'm thinking that the reason
I'm dropping a RAID array on a winbox is due to the use of green drives in
the matrix. Since they spin up and down the controller may not be detecting
this correctly and marking them as failed.

Entertain yourself here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/251076-32-raid-issues-western-digital-hard-disk

Bill

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