Using WD 1TB Green in Raid 1 Setup

[davewolfs]

Hello everyone,

I'm considering purchasing the WD Green/WD10EADS and I would like to use this in a desktop setup for Raid 1. I'd like to know if there are any caveats in choosing this drive over say the RE2-GP? I realize that this drive has TLER disable by default but I've downloaded the utility and I suppose I could always enable this on the drive. Have any of you used the non raid drives in setups like this? Any reasons why I shouldn't do this?

Thanks,

Dave

 

[DonDon]

Hello everyone,

I'm considering purchasing the WD Green/WD10EADS and I would like to use this in a desktop setup for Raid 1. I'd like to know if there are any caveats in choosing this drive over say the RE2-GP? I realize that this drive has TLER disable by default but I've downloaded the utility and I suppose I could always enable this on the drive. Have any of you used the non raid drives in setups like this? Any reasons why I shouldn't do this?

Thanks,

Dave

I've got 3 of those drives in a Thecus N5200 in RAID 5. When I first got them, 1 drive kept dropping out of the array when I tried to build it. While I was RMAing the drive I heard about TLER, and enabled it on all 3 drives when I got the replacement in and have had no further problems since then.

As long as your array has data redundancy, like RAID 1, it is OK to enable TLER. It should never be used on a single drive desktop or in RAID 0.

Don