Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 20:03:05 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 09:14:02PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson
Leighton wrote:
just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any
reason,
should you buy WD "Green" drives.
TL;DR
I am familiar with a storage company who has thousands of these exact
drives, all in JBODs and RAID arrays. They are pushed hard, daily.
Other
than standard drive failures as would be expected with any service
like
this, there is no issue.
Same here, although not quite as much. I have about 250 drives (both
EARS and EADS) across a range of servers and situations (some in London
data-centers, others in office-based servers - and these in the office
have regularly seen temperatures of 45oC in the room recently after I
had issues with the AC units on the roof). Plus, the data-center
machines are reading/writing at least three to five megabytes per second
as a base-line minimum for much of their life.
My rate of loss is about a drive a month (maybe two or three drives if
it's a bad month), but only around 8% a year. Even then, a drive with me
will normally fail after either three weeks or three years. On the whole
they're stable and have not caused me any great concern.
Considering temperatures alone, I've had more problems with Samsung
drives than WD's Green range.
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