[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[rob at webworxshop.com]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 14:57:34 +1300, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> Please note the WD "green" drives when in Raid or LVM extents mode
> wear out the heads very quickly unless you flash a firmware hack.
>
> This is a bug to the way the drives park the heads you can see it by
> the increased cycle rate on drives with smartctl... I recomend that 
> if
> you are not comfortable flashing low level vendor provided firmware
> blobs to these drives that you get "something else" if you intend to
> use them in any sort of always on raid setup.
>

Thanks for the heads up. Do you have a link to the firmware upgrade?

Rob