Looking for quiet high capacity hard drive

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WD are fiarly quieter than seagates, gow tih one of their 500gb's or maybe get 2 320's

 

[ryansebiz]

Originally posted by: MadBadger
If I were you, I'd double check with Western Digital as to how you can disable TLER before you purchase the drive. Like I mentioned, I read about the program in a post somewhere but didn't confirm the information.

Thanks MadBadger - I emailed WD support about TLER and received this reply:

I am sorry, but there is no option to disable TLER on our hard drive. However, the drive should still work just fine in a Non RAID setup. It is recommended that customers do not use a Desktop drive in a RAID type setup as we all should know by now. However, going the other way you can use a Raid Edition drive in a non RAID type setup and it will not affect performance or reliability of the drive. The only difference is that at 7 seconds the RE drive will STOP error recovery and post an error to the desktop or RAID host; whereas the desktop drive will continue error recovery until host timeout. The advantage to the RE drive in a RAID application is the drive remains?online? and posts the error to the hose, the host then decides what to do with the error. If you were having some issues, we would recommend running our diagnostics. However, if it takes longer then 7 seconds there is likely an error with the drive anyway.