[GRLUG] Caviar black & green

[Michael Mol]

I've had one Black 1TB out of three fail on me in the last year. It
was part of a RAID0 at first, and most recently was part of an
unstriped LVM volume group. We've still got most of a dozen or so
200GB Caviar Greens still floating around in various roles at the
office. They spent a few years as part of a large RAID5, prior. I have
no real complaints against the caviar line.

Now, I'll heartily *recommend* Seagate 1.5TB greens; they survived a
RAID5 I put them in for about a year, and are still alive in other
roles. (That same RAID5 set had to undergo at least three rebuilds
because of administrator failure, and of failure of other hardware
components.)

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone have any war stories about
> WD Caviar blank & green hard drives?
> The green drives are cheap.  Less than half the
> price of same capacity black drives.
> So what might be the downside?
>    -- Bob
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