[mythtvnz] Myth & Raid. SW or HW..

[Steven Ellis]

On Sat, July 21, 2012 4:28 am, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 July 2012, Hadley Rich wrote:
>
>>
>> The WD Green drives (and other consumer drives) have issues with any
>> RAID,
>> be it software or hardware. Their firmware just isn't designed for it.
>>
>> Where does that perl come from?

Look up TLER. This is something that WD used to only enable on their
Enterprise or Black series drives. Green drives have it turned off. If
you're running a HW Raid controller you can get some interesting issues
where you're raid set is marked off line

With software raid (mdadm) you're usually OK, but worth knowing about.

Steve


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