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StephenB wrote:
I don't recommend green drives in NAS - WDC Red drives are a better choice. But I don't think the failure you had was specific to green drives either.

I currently have 14 RAID system active, 2 are 6 drive systems are 4 drive systems.

So 60 hard drives with a majority of them not being green drives.

I would say that every single time with the exception of 1 time I have had a hard drive fail in my array, it has been a Green drive.

My understanding is that a green drive does certain things to save power that results in the drive being damaged in the process. The power savings are laughable between a green drive vs a normal drive.

In the Readynas software, I can shut down all the drives after 60 minutes of inactivity. I sometimes will shut down a raid system completely if the files don't have to be accessed that often. I can basically do my own power saving management without compromising the data integrity.

Back in the day, the data systems were SCSI hard drives which started out as the best of the best of the regular hard drives before the upgrades to SCSI . Basically like the navy seals of hard drives, the best of the best. The SCSI drives and hardware were extremely expensive however the idea for RAID( redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) is that you could use a normal hard drive not have to be forced to buy a special SCSI drive or " RED" drive.
RAID is suppose to allow for a normal average joe hard drive not a special VIP " RED" edition hard drive. It kind of goes against the theory behind raid. If the Red drive is good, then all their hard drives should be made like the red. When you go on an airlines, you don't have to specify that you want a flight that won't crash. They are all not suppose to crash.

The problem from my experience in these green drives are like engineered to be guaranteed defective. I don't know if WD takes the rejected drives and turned them into the green drive or if the mechanical on constantly stopping the hard drive and starting it again over and over again that is causing these defects but these drives in my humble opinion are absolutely insanity to use.

Does it make sense to risk losing all your data over a few cents in power a year? Heck, those Comcast Cable boxes use like 32 watts on and 30 watts off and we are forced to have them on every TV.

My car has a green technology in which it will turn off the car completely if I stop at a red light or in traffic too long. Very annoying since the car's battery can only power the AC for a few seconds before needing to power on again. I don't think its good for my car to keep starting and stopping to I shut that feature off. The point is that this " green" craze that some people are doing is risking to seriously damage people equipment and data for almost zero savings in energy.

After this latest scare, I think I may have to write a letter to the president of WD about the real cost of their " green" drives which are a ticking time bomb of data loss. Thank goodness for RAID technology and the wonderful people on this message board who care enough to help others.

May I ask why you don't think my issue was specific to green drives?

Thanks.