From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Dunn Subject: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:20:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4BAB8D41.4010801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mdadm List-Id: linux-raid.ids Recently Dell is selling their WD20EARS (2TB) for 90$ This being one of the best PPG (Price Per Gigabyte) snatches I have seen, I was considering buying 8 of them for an mdadm array. Has anyone had experience with these drives? Note, they have 4K sectors. Thank you for your kind responses.