made a boo boo

[Magic_x_uk]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-324-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

just bought one of these as one of my external HD was showing some errors. I was using the external HD x1TB usb as Fat32 with my PS3.

Now got this new drive set it as NTFS and planned in the future to put it in a NAS running raid 1

Apparently you cant run WD Greens in raid.

SODS LAW.

Oh well, live and learn....

 

[wonko]

IIRC, the issue is that if these drives develop a bad sector then they will keep retrying to read data beyond the point where the raid controller thinks they have failed, which will chuck the disk out of the array. Probably not the end of the world in raid 1.
Personally, though, I'd prefer to have a separate backup disks to raided/mirrored disks - it's much less likely for a disk to fail than it is for me to accidentally trash some files and need to restore from a backup.

 

[Jordan97]

I'm sure if you emailed OcUK you could arrange an RMA with them.

 

[Surveyor]

DSR, as long as you didn't buy it in the shop.