ozzyman778
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- Nov 16, 2012
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Get the WD Red drives, which are usually only marginally more expensive than the WD Green ones. And they're made for NAS. TLER is helpful whether you use hardware or software RAID, but it's more critical to hardware RAID. If you're using RAIDZ1 or RAIDZ2, you can set TLER on the Red drives and let them go ahead and fail marginal sectors and let the recovery/parity information recreate it. IMO that's better than sitting there for 5 minutes trying to recover a marginal/bad sector. If you're buying drives, just make life simple on yourself and get the WD Reds unless they're much more expensive than Greens.
Agreed! Just bought 4x2TB WD reds for $118 a piece, not much more than WD greens if you shop around. Not to mention I can't even tell there spinning they are so smooth and when i re-silvered my entire array one drive at a time the WD Reds were barely warm to the touch while the old 500g drives (Various manufactures to include two WD blacks) were hot to the touch.