WD1001FALS-00U9B0 - A new drive that came in to the store as Recertified RMA.
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20 Aug 2010 - PASS
Added a new drive to the list!
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WD1001FALS-00U9B0 - A new drive that came in to the store as Recertified RMA.
FW: Unknown
20 Aug 2010 - PASS
if your original drive allowed TLER your RMA will allow TLER. I have received a few and one of my 1.5TB that did NOT allow TLER came back NOT allowing TLER. The other 5 or so allowed TLER since they originally did.
Buy Hitachi 7K2000 or 7K3000 and be done with it, or, if you want TLER for some reason(?) buy enterprise disk drives. TLER is not needed for normal drives, e.g. Hitachi, which work fine with or without RAID.
Has anyone enabled TLER on Western Digital WDBAAY0020HNC drives?
I've heard they are the same as the WD20EADS, can anyone confirm this?
Does anyone know the cutoff manufacture date for when Western Digital disabled the ability for us to enable TLER on the WD20EADS?
this thread just keeps coming back...
word to the wise: Don't buy any WD green drive with the expectation of running TLER.
Even if you manage to get one that still allows you to enable it, the first time you have to RMA one chances are you're going to get a non TLER capable drive back.
If you need TLER buy the WD RE series drives or use more Raid-friendly drives from Samsung or Hitatchi.
Why use RAID for backup? With all of the potential issues you might be shooting yourself in the foot.
At my last company, we used RAID6 for live backup, and tape for archiving those backups.... Most enterprises (that, one would hope, put some thought into how they do it) don't use RAID for backup (in fact many use tape storage for large volumes).
Resurrection from the dead!
I made the "mistake" of buying 5 WD20EARS drives for my non-mission critical RAID setup using an LSI 8408e controller. Unfortunately I found, post factum, that TLER is not something I can enable on these puppies right off the bat...
Thus:
1. Is there ANYTHING that would enable it? Custom firmware? Customer utility?
2. If I do replace them, I can get them changed to WD20EADS drives - do all firmware support TLER?
3. Different drive maybe then?
Thanks!!!!