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“WD Green hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs as secondary storage, external enclosures and other applications that require cool and quiet operation.
Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.”
Technisch begründet ist das in der “Intellipark”-Technologie, die alle 8 sec die Parkposition anfährt.
“From their website: WD Caviar Black, Caviar Green, and Caviar Blue hard drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing. Western Digital also doesn’t provide support for the Unix/Linux operating systems for the same reason. The affected models has been recognized as: WD20EADS, WD20EARS, WD15EADS, WD15EARS, WD10EADS, WD10EARS, WD8000AARS, WD7500AADS, WD7500AARS, WD6400AADS, WD6400AARS, WD5000AADS, WD5000AARS.”(Quelle: http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/12/intellipark-makes-western-digital-green.html
Siehe ergänzend auch: http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds-8.html
“WD Green hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs as secondary storage, external enclosures and other applications that require cool and quiet operation.
Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.”
Technisch begründet ist das in der “Intellipark”-Technologie, die alle 8 sec die Parkposition anfährt.
“From their website: WD Caviar Black, Caviar Green, and Caviar Blue hard drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing. Western Digital also doesn’t provide support for the Unix/Linux operating systems for the same reason. The affected models has been recognized as: WD20EADS, WD20EARS, WD15EADS, WD15EARS, WD10EADS, WD10EARS, WD8000AARS, WD7500AADS, WD7500AARS, WD6400AADS, WD6400AARS, WD5000AADS, WD5000AARS.”(Quelle: http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/12/intellipark-makes-western-digital-green.html
Siehe ergänzend auch: http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds-8.html