[Arm-netbook] ARM HDA Advice?

[lkcl luke]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Workaround: use USB hard disks and USB hubs.

 and for fuck's sake don't get western digital "green" 1.5Tb drives.
i bought four of those.  their temperatures ramped up to 45C
immediately, peaked at 60C on setup into a RAID1 mirror, and corrupted
within hours.  i had a really tough 2 months investigating the problem
and keeping the customer's data stable, which by then had *already*
been transferred onto the drives, because even doing a fsck on the
ext4 filesystem was enough to *cause* data corruption, the WD drives
were *that* unstable.

 all of them - every single one of them (from the same batch) - turned
out to be faulty.  for each one of these *new* drives, when running
the hard drive checking program, showed a "time to failure" of 75 hrs.
 i was seriously fucking pissed off with WD, and will never use their
drives ever again.

 by contrast, the replacement 1.5tb Hitachi drives didn't go above 34C
even at full tilt.

 l.