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Green 3TB drives - timeline to debut?
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<blockquote data-quote="ara" data-source="post: 105983" data-attributes="member: 1336"><p>Not nay. Just disable the head parking as per my FreeNAS guide I'm busy with. What happens is to "make the drives green" the head parks it self after 8 seconds. Then when data is accessed the head "lifts" again then "parks" itself again. Now the life cycle of this is fairly large. Typically use of these drives is single desktop drive that you will access every now and then so no problem at all. Now what happens in a raid scenarios is that irrespective of what you use (even the smallest tiniest of file) will make all of the drives to constantly load and unload, etc. This puts stain on the drive that can cause failures. This also has an indirect impact on TLER (Time-limited error recovery) problems. By disabling this your drive becomes less green but you can also set it to 300 seconds instead of 8 seconds. Seagates have less of a problem but I prefer to use WD green drives because I can actually control it. That way you won't have this problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ara, post: 105983, member: 1336"] Not nay. Just disable the head parking as per my FreeNAS guide I'm busy with. What happens is to "make the drives green" the head parks it self after 8 seconds. Then when data is accessed the head "lifts" again then "parks" itself again. Now the life cycle of this is fairly large. Typically use of these drives is single desktop drive that you will access every now and then so no problem at all. Now what happens in a raid scenarios is that irrespective of what you use (even the smallest tiniest of file) will make all of the drives to constantly load and unload, etc. This puts stain on the drive that can cause failures. This also has an indirect impact on TLER (Time-limited error recovery) problems. By disabling this your drive becomes less green but you can also set it to 300 seconds instead of 8 seconds. Seagates have less of a problem but I prefer to use WD green drives because I can actually control it. That way you won't have this problem. [/QUOTE]
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