<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 November 2010 08:53, Steven Ellis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="im"><br><div><div>On 18/11/2010, at 8:01 AM, Nick Rout wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Richard (lists account)<br><<a href="mailto:rich_lists@richms.com" target="_blank">rich_lists@richms.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">You bought WD green drives. Nuff said there really. They are the pits.<br></blockquote><br><br>stop top posting.<br><br>And you are wrong, many many people on the mythtvusers mailing list<br>have reported the green drives as just great for mythtv.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>I've used plenty of the WD Green drives and I don't see any performance issues when using them as storage.</div><div><br></div><div>Be careful doing Raid with them, just look up TLER in google, but otherwise they are excellent value.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mind due I don't enable sleep on my drives so I'm no getting your start up issues. Do you have the drive set to auto sleep after a short period?</div><div><br></div><br></div></blockquote><div>
<br>Agreed, I have a couple of WD green 1TB (one internal and one external) both are used for storage and work fine for this purpose. <br>However at one stage I was using internal one as a system drive as well and it was not up to the task.<br>
<br>Ken<br></div></div><br>