Re: Western Digital Green 3TB SATA3 experiences
From: Chris Murphy <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-21 21:30:16
On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [off-list ref] wrote:
This is true. The only real difference between the blacks and the 'enterprise' drives, is that the firmware isn't crippled.
No, another difference is the RE drives have another order magnitude lower URE. So they're statistically more reliable. And they don't have the implicit proscription to not use them in RAID other than 1 and 0. Chris Murphy