WD 400gig Raid Edition Drive?

Cyber-Mav · 21 Mar 2006 at 22:23

has anyone used this drive before? i see it has been rated for a long mtbf and at a 100% 24/7 duty cycle. sounds to me like its a very reliable drive.

any thoughts? im planning on getting one to replace my seagate 250 gig drive and was also wondering if there would be any speed increase?

jbloggs · 21 Mar 2006 at 22:44

Have a look Here

smids · 21 Mar 2006 at 23:06

Ignore anyone who says server only because of TLER - the Raptor 150 (standard) has TLER and no-one moans

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NickK · 21 Mar 2006 at 23:17

jbloggs said:
Have a look Here

Hmm the comment about HTER and not catching all read/write errors but allowing the raid controller to correct it is odd.

A failure would cause a raid5 drive rebuild (ie the drive would be marked as failed), if this occurs with more than one - kiss good by to the whole array.

edit: there are posts in the forum discussions - seems that the HTER doesn't cause issues in high load situations.

I'd be interested in these if they can take a beating with hit I/O and long duty cycles of over 24 hrs

I stopped using my RAID0 raptors and Maxtors because I was worried about the impact it may have... roll on cheap ramdiscs...

edit 2: If I have a drive in in a raid array that has demonstrated faulty sectors (beyond the automatic drive mapping itself) - like hell is it going to be allowed to remain in the raid array!