I've been doing some reading and it appears that some WD drives aren't meant to go into a raid configuration.  Not sure if that applies to unraid as this is a software configuration.  But, I want to put a couple drives into a raid 1 configuration (mirror) and now I'm a little paranoid about just buying some drives assuming that they will work...  Anyone have anything that the could point me to that would let me know if there are some 'safe' drives to buy.  Nothing fancy, I'll be happy with a couple 1TB disks that run a 3 G/s (which seems to be pretty standard at this point in time).

 

Thanks,

Chris

I don't know if the WD Green drives will work in RAID 1 or not, but I'm pretty sure that this is the reason that WD bothers to make RAID class drives.

 

These RAID class drives are not required in the unRAID environment, of course, just in traditional RAID environments.

most drives do raid1fine. It's when you get into multi-drive striped arrays where you could have some real issues. I've used all brands of drives with linux software raid1 with good success. 

ive used most brands in raid5 (wd, seagate, hitachi, samsung) with no issues too, just the  desktop drives.

It looks like the consensus here is that most drives should work just fine.  I just got paranoid after seeing a few reviews on newegg of people complaining about drives not working in raid.

 

I found this and was going to pick up a couple: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136534  but I thought I would see if anyone here had any thoughts on their applicability.

 

Thanks,

Chris

I think this is what got me paranoid in the first place: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

 

There is a review here about the Time Limited Error Recovery feature of WD drives making them a bad choice for raid applications.  Is this something I need to be concerned with?

I think the deal is that desktop drives will probably work, but if they don't and you contact WD/Seagate/whatever support, they will tell you that you are SOL because you aren't using RAID class drives.