Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 09:14:02PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason,
should you buy WD "Green" drives.

TL;DR

I am familiar with a storage company who has thousands of these exact
drives, all in JBODs and RAID arrays. They are pushed hard, daily. Other
than standard drive failures as would be expected with any service like
this, there is no issue.

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