[AusNOG] Possibly useful device for data retention?

Nick Stallman nick at agentpoint.com
Tue Jun 30 10:50:52 EST 2015


I've got some (4) 320gig WD Green drives that have uptimes of over 5 
years and they are still going strong.
They were RAID 5 but are obviously not storing important data any more.

Replaced with 2TB and later on 4TB WD Green drives.
All going well. It's nice having a 33TB NAS at home.

On 29/06/15 20:39, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:
> I have a few green wd  1TB + 2TB  that are part of my storage array at home. They are spun up most of the time for the last 2 + years.  Not heavy use.
>
> Alex
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> On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 17:09 +0800, Chris Legg wrote:
>> 100 years? If it's anything like the WD Green drives you'll be lucky
>> if they last 2 years.
> Tell me more. I understood WD Greens to be aimed at the desktop market, where they should last fine and they are half the price or less of the higher-end ones. Run them 24/7 and they'll fail, give them an ordinary desktop's duty cycle where they spend two-thirds of their lives idle or off, and they should last OK...?
>
> If you've seen test data that says otherwise, do tell! Because WD is certainly selling them as suitable for desktops.
>
> Regards, K.
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