WD green and raid?

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equate975

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I'm going to setup a NAS for myself because I'm sick of having all my data scattered over several HD's, and none really backed up (aside from a few binders of DVD's that have already degraded to the point that most can't be read)

I was thinking about getting a pair of 1 TB WD green HDs. I have read that running in them in any raid configuration would case the SMART to fail out quick. IIRC it was something to do with the HD head reset time or something like that.

I plan to just mirror the two, and it would just be a dumping ground for my data, no OS or anything that's going to write to it frequently.

Would these drives work? and if I got an early smart failure due to the head reset time, would it be a false positive? or something that is really wrong?

Thanks for any info
 
they work but you need to use the TLER utility first and they need to be connected to the motherboard to run the TLER
 
No need to do anything if the RAID level you are using does not use parity.

A mirror will work just fine out of the box.
 
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