[GRLUG] Caviar black & green

[Bob Kline]

Hmmmm.  Seagate green.  Now I'm
wondering what the black and green is
all about if it's not just a WD thing.

Overall it appears you've gotten a lot
of bang for the buck with the greens.
A "few years" in a RAID5 setup sounds
like pretty good service for $60.

    --  Bob


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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