Thanks Michael,

This would only apply to drives manufactured after 2010, when WD began to
limit TLER and stop distributing the WDTLER.EXE tool.

So, I imagine there are only a few people who are finding the instability of
WD drives in hardware RAID an issue so far.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Michael J. Astrauskas <trevie@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 9/27/2011 8:53 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>
> Is anyone successfully using basic (Desktop class, aka cheap) SATA drives
> with hardware controller cards?
>
> I'm have a RAID6 with 6 x 1GB Western Digital Blacks (WDCWD1001FALS0) on a
> Dell-branded PERC 6/i PCI-e card that supports up to eight devices, as well
> as a RAID5 with a 4-port PCIx 3ware card (SATA1) that has 4 x cheap 500GB
> drives.  (The latter machine is off and not near me, so I can't check!)
>
> As I recall, rebuilds on the latter array take 3-6 hours, and 6-9 on the
> former.  It's a rare occurrence, so I don't don't fully remember.  I don't
> know the TLER status (nor capability) of the drives.
>
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