25 Sep
2015
25 Sep
'15
1:56 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:33:59PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/24/2015 04:30 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
My last set of drives where WD Red 2TB drives. They are designed for NAS,
so can deal with 24/7 operation. One word of warning on those: by default
they spin down on idle (and spin up again on access). In a typical light
loaded environment, that is likely to run up the load cycles sky high
in a hurry. So I recommended completely disabling that (note: after
changing this setting, the drives need a power cycle).
Older ones: I'm quite fond of WD RE series drives, a bit more expensive
but from my experience very reliable.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
IMHO, you want to buy at one generation below the
current max
capacity on the assumption that they ironed out the bugs on that
one.
So, if you were to move up from the 500GB SATA drives to the "next
generation", which would you choose?