Video: Are Your Green Drives Killing Your NAS?

Revision3’s TEKZiLLA twice weekly tech show have a segment entitled “Are your Green Drives Killing Your NAS?”

In this 10 minute segment PCPer.com’s Allyn Malventano talks about Western Digital’s new Red NAS Drives with their Time Limited Error Recovery – TLER (normally only available in enterprise RAID edition drives) and automatic dynamic balancing. Allyn also talks about the Scrubbing your RAID feature and if you should replace your the Green drives in your home server right now.

In conclusion:

• If you are in the market right now for new hard drives buy the WD Red’s
• If you currently have WD Green, Black or any other hard drives just replace them as they go dead with the WD Red drives

You can listen to this segment here. (08:43 in)

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