ok, so i'm almost ready to purchase some hard drives for a large (5TB+) RAID5 or RAID6 multimedia storage array, and i want to know what desktop drives are best for running in RAID? from what i hear, the newest Western Digital drives have updated firmwares that will no longer allow you to use the TLER utility to enable their use in a RAID array, and i really don't want to buy the RE3 versions of their drives for twice the price of the standard desktop drives. it's absolutely fucking LUDICROUS to have to spend twice as much for basically the same drive, just with TLER enabled, and i'm gonna stop buying WD drives altogether because of them doing that.....they won't get another penny from me as long as they keep up this bullshit.
although, if anyone knows a way around the TLER issue with their latest drives, i'd love to hear it, and may consider buying WD drives if there is a sure-fire way to do TLER on them for RAID.
anyone have any suggestions/experience with other desktop drives in a RAID environment? i'd prefer to shop at newegg, so whatever they have available there will take precedence, unless there is some other drive they don't carry that will be far better and would be worth going elsewhere to buy it. i'd prefer to stay at or below ~$100/drive, but a few bucks +/- is ok.
although, if anyone knows a way around the TLER issue with their latest drives, i'd love to hear it, and may consider buying WD drives if there is a sure-fire way to do TLER on them for RAID.
anyone have any suggestions/experience with other desktop drives in a RAID environment? i'd prefer to shop at newegg, so whatever they have available there will take precedence, unless there is some other drive they don't carry that will be far better and would be worth going elsewhere to buy it. i'd prefer to stay at or below ~$100/drive, but a few bucks +/- is ok.