As per title - I'm thinking of going hardware RAID - I have the controller & 8 WD Blacks.. thinking of grabbing two more & then make either a RAID 5 or 6 array using a 9260-8i. However I recall any WD hdd that isn't a RE has TLER on/off & this messes up badly in a hardware RAID config - or am I getting confused?
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HARDWARE I only own Xeons, Extreme Editions & Lian Li's
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The Reds/Blacks that I have used with hardware RAID have never missed a beat (8x2TB Reds in a QNAP TS-819 and 6x2TB Blacks in a custom server with a Dell Perc H700).
Also have a server at work with 8x2TB RE4s on some Areca card and they're happy as well after a decent flogging (its a media server that serves up to 50+ users at a time).
I prefer Blacks/REs solely for their warranty, supposedly Reds don't have the same error bit checking as Enterprise drives (Constellations, RE's etc) but I could be wrong, never bothered to look into more.
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Myself I have 10 WD 2TB green drives in raid 6 hooked to a RocketRAID 3560 Controller.
I so far had to RMA 1 of the drives, but the rest are fine.
I have the system scheduled to do a verify once a week.
I really don't need faster drives since it saturates the gigabit network anyways.
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