"green" hard disk and ubuntu?

[Preston Hagar]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Preston Hagar <prestonh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:06 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>> Samsung and Seagate and Western Digital all make these kinds of drives.
>> However, I hear that Western Digital Green drives have a tendency to turn
>> themselves off to save power, and so are not a good drive to use in a RAID
>> array. But I'm sure they are good drives otherwise...
>>
>
> They aren't very good in RAID arrays.  The Western Digital ones
> specifically have TLER [1] issue that can cause drives to drop out of
> the array.  This can be changed in the firmware, but I still have had
> issues since they don't all always keep a consistent spindle speed.
>
> As for general use as a stand alone drive, other than sometimes being
> a little slow, I would say they are great.  They are generally some of
> the most inexpensive drives, often have large capacities, and make
> great second "data" drives.
>
>
> Preston
>

Sorry, forgot the TLER link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery