terayon1515
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- Mar 23, 2006
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Hey all,
I constantly gain intelligence from everyone here, especially the storage moguls who always have input and advice with higher-end RAID-HBA's and troubleshooting. I must thank everyone here for making this forum what it is.
I recently posted about an upgrade to an Areca 1882ix-12 card to move my essential disks off of softRAID:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1674754
I consistently hear horror stories about using these WD Green consumer drives without TLER on hardware RAID. I have this love relationship with WD drives, they have had very low failure rates with me. So before the upgrade I had 10+ Green and Blue drives to migrate to hardware RAID.
I bit the bullet and got the card, and am happy to report that I have had three arrays on the unit without any drops or any irregular behavior:
These arrays have been up for over 6 months now. Yesterday I completed an OCE of the 6x WD20EARS array adding two more WD20EARX drives bringing the array to 14TB. Drives operated flawlessly: 25hour array migration, 2hour volume expand.
Lastly, I must provide the amazing speeds this 8x WD 2TB array produces:
ATTO:
HDTune:
I hope this provides hope to those out there with WD Greens, Blues etc. w/o TLER looking to do hardware RAID.
All the best,
Jeremy
I constantly gain intelligence from everyone here, especially the storage moguls who always have input and advice with higher-end RAID-HBA's and troubleshooting. I must thank everyone here for making this forum what it is.
I recently posted about an upgrade to an Areca 1882ix-12 card to move my essential disks off of softRAID:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1674754
I consistently hear horror stories about using these WD Green consumer drives without TLER on hardware RAID. I have this love relationship with WD drives, they have had very low failure rates with me. So before the upgrade I had 10+ Green and Blue drives to migrate to hardware RAID.
I bit the bullet and got the card, and am happy to report that I have had three arrays on the unit without any drops or any irregular behavior:
- 6x WD20EARS in RAID5
- 4x WD15EADS in RAID5
- 4x WD5000AAKS in RAID5
These arrays have been up for over 6 months now. Yesterday I completed an OCE of the 6x WD20EARS array adding two more WD20EARX drives bringing the array to 14TB. Drives operated flawlessly: 25hour array migration, 2hour volume expand.
Lastly, I must provide the amazing speeds this 8x WD 2TB array produces:
ATTO:
HDTune:
I hope this provides hope to those out there with WD Greens, Blues etc. w/o TLER looking to do hardware RAID.
All the best,
Jeremy
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