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OT; Green is not always good.
On 4/28/11 8:53 AM, Harryk wrote:
I'm putting together a new server and was about to order four 2-terabyte Western Digital "Green" enterprise hard drives for it. I've never really thought about why these drives are called "green," other than they are supposed to use less power than "non-green" drives. Obviously, they do this by shutting the drive down when it isn't being accessed. Apparently, though, when you use "green" drives in a server, you end up with a dramatically high Load/UnLoad Cycle Count, and this can lead to premature ejac-, er, drive failure. There is a way to turn off the "green" on the WD drives, by adjusting the drive's idle timer to lower the Load/Unload cycle rate, but it is a pain in the ass, involving preparing a DOS boot disk, installing the drive in a computer, and running a program. Not difficult, but I don't have a "Windoze" computer anymore that can boot up into DOS. :) I'm guessing the "green" drives of other vendors will behave similarly. Sheesh, I never learned any of this stuff in my college English classes. Even an O.F. like me is not too old to learn. For someone who says he doesn't want to share info in rec.boats, you sure seem to share every aspect of your life, except your "New" Imaginary boat, just like you didn't share info on your old Imaginary Lobster Boat. Now the boats you actually did own, you took photos of everything, including a photo or your hour meter to show everyone how much you used it in the first month. |
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