[ale] [OT] spec'ing drives for a NAS

[John Anderson]

OK, thanks the whole 'green' thing is not something I ever paid 
attention to before.

I was on the verge of ordering the QNAP TS-212 based on its reviews and 
flexibility.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822107063

I was looking at drives that are listed on the QNAP drive compatability 
chart:
http://web.qnap.com/pro_compatibility.asp#note9

Apparently I should avoid the 'green' one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148725

Perhaps I should get this one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337

There is no color listed for the second one. Does that mean that it is 
'blue'?

On 09/23/2012 12:38 PM, simontek at gmail.com wrote:
> Do not use a 5900rpm drive with a nas. Honestly, do not use green drives for NAS. It you have them raided together,  the green drives being variable to not sync, and will fail. I have seen half the drives in a 20 drive setup fail in 6 months cause of that.
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> I am looking at drives for a home NAS and there are options for 5900rpm
> versus 7200rpm, sata 2 vs 3 and cache size.
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> My intuition is that none of this matters, by the time you transfer the
> data across the network any differences will disappear.
>
> Agree? Disagree?
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