From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WD Red vs Black drives for RAID1
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:02:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564A3651.1010105@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22090.13317.824290.574006@quad.stoffel.home>
On 11/16/2015 02:52 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
> So I like the 5 year warranttee on the blacks, but it does look like
> the REDs are the way to go. And I think I'll also go with splitting
> my data between seagate and WD and possibly Hitachi (I know, they've
> been bought by WD) to make a three way RAID 1 mirror across 4Tb
> drives. Yes, I'd get more room out of RAID5, but I'm not that silly,
> and I don't need to move to 4 x 4Tb in RAID6 either.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-16 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 16:28 WD Red vs Black drives for RAID1 John Stoffel
2015-11-16 17:05 ` Another Sillyname
2015-11-16 17:35 ` John Stoffel
2015-11-16 17:27 ` Jens-U. Mozdzen
2015-11-16 17:32 ` John Stoffel
2015-11-16 17:44 ` Jens-U. Mozdzen
2015-11-17 5:04 ` Brad Campbell
2015-11-16 17:45 ` Robert L Mathews
2015-11-16 19:50 ` John Stoffel
2015-11-16 18:07 ` Wols Lists
2015-11-16 18:28 ` Phil Turmel
2015-11-16 19:52 ` John Stoffel
2015-11-16 20:02 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2015-11-16 20:16 ` John Stoffel
2015-11-16 20:55 ` Wols Lists
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