[Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

[Richard Pieri]

On 2/14/2012 12:34 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>   Have you seen failures caused by this?   Can you provide more details
> about the circumstances?

WD's first generation Green disks are notorious for popping out of RAID 
sets due to timeout issues.  It is such a problem that Western Digital 
published a firmware hack that changes the various timeout settings on 
these disks.

Mixing disks may work just fine.  Mixing disks may crap out.  It depends 
on the disks, what firmware hacks have been loaded, the RAID system, the 
chassis power and other factors that I haven't considered.

-- 
Rich P.