From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: WD Red vs Black drives for RAID1 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:55:58 +0000 Message-ID: <564A42DE.1080203@youngman.org.uk> References: <22090.1097.258820.65463@quad.stoffel.home> <564A203C.1020309@turmel.org> <22090.13317.824290.574006@quad.stoffel.home> <564A3651.1010105@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <564A3651.1010105@turmel.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel , John Stoffel Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 16/11/15 20:02, Phil Turmel wrote: > Seagate was the brand that screwed me first with the industry-wide > deletion of ERC support in desktop drives. Hitachi held onto it the > longest. Whatever you consider, read the data sheets carefully to > ensure they have ERC support. Google the model number along with > 'linux-raid' and 'scterc' to see our past experiences with specific drives. Oddly enough, when I was looking at the model number for the Seagate NAS drives, I noticed they started with HDS ... Cheers, Wol