Hi filgood,
I've already bought four of these WD disks and they robbed me some days. Now they are in my shelf until I know whatever I can do with them. They are NOT raid-aware for my opinion.
These are so called "green" drives with 4kb-sectorsize. The web is full of people having trouble at the right alignment of the disks. I can imagine, that your controller is not 4k-aware or has other troubles.
Another point is their "reaction time" until they become ready. These is much longer than of the "enterprise-disks" like WD RE or Seagate NS drives.
I tried to use them for a low-end-zfs-storage under openindiana and they lost sync shortly. Another try with linux md1-raid ended unsuccesful. The raid lasts not longer than 30 min.
I would suggest to use other disks.
hope it helps,
vmanz
I've already bought four of these WD disks and they robbed me some days. Now they are in my shelf until I know whatever I can do with them. They are NOT raid-aware for my opinion.
These are so called "green" drives with 4kb-sectorsize. The web is full of people having trouble at the right alignment of the disks. I can imagine, that your controller is not 4k-aware or has other troubles.
Another point is their "reaction time" until they become ready. These is much longer than of the "enterprise-disks" like WD RE or Seagate NS drives.
I tried to use them for a low-end-zfs-storage under openindiana and they lost sync shortly. Another try with linux md1-raid ended unsuccesful. The raid lasts not longer than 30 min.
I would suggest to use other disks.
hope it helps,
vmanz