[mythtvnz] New Hard Drive not performing well

[Kenneth Dixon]

On 18 November 2010 08:53, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:

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> On 18/11/2010, at 8:01 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Richard (lists account)
> <rich_lists at richms.com> wrote:
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> You bought WD green drives. Nuff said there really. They are the pits.
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> stop top posting.
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> And you are wrong, many many people on the mythtvusers mailing list
> have reported the green drives as just great for mythtv.
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> I've used plenty of the WD Green drives and I don't see any performance
> issues when using them as storage.
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> Be careful doing Raid with them, just look up TLER in google, but otherwise
> they are excellent value.
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> 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?
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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.
However at one stage I was using internal one as a system drive as well and
it was not up to the task.

Ken
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