Yah, the idea that someone at WD thought it a good idea to put these kinds of drive in a RAID means that they don't technically understand RAID. Which is sort of scary, and makes you wonder what other gocha's they have lying about.
Even regular idle scrubbing is going to potentially keep drives 100% busy for extended periods of time. Combined with online backup/etc. Its crazy! Do they think that only enterprises run their NAS'es with backup, or workloads that provide a low level of near constant background activity?
Even regular idle scrubbing is going to potentially keep drives 100% busy for extended periods of time. Combined with online backup/etc. Its crazy! Do they think that only enterprises run their NAS'es with backup, or workloads that provide a low level of near constant background activity?