<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 18/11/2010, at 8:01 AM, Nick Rout wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Richard (lists account)<br><<a href="mailto:rich_lists@richms.com">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>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><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></span>
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