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IS Change: A Positive View
One of the most common topics of conversation last week was the change of Insect Swarm from a DoT to a debuff. Lissanna made a blog post about the new design on her blog Restokin, and Murmurs made this comment on twitter after the new calculator was released:
"Still do not approve of Insect Swarm. Changing it from nuke damage to all damage just makes it worse, not better. Target switching guys."
After reading these and other comments from around the internet, it struck me that many of us are missing the point of the change. Let me ask a couple of rhetorical questions. What are the good moonkin fights currently, and on which fights are we weak? Those questions are easy to answer with a quick look at the WoL rankings. Any fight with AoE or multiple persistent targets is a good fight for moonkin, but on any single target fight like Ultraxion we are weak. This is one of the biggest problems with Moonkin DPS currently, and I think this Insect Swarm change is trying to address that.
Lissanna said in her blog post that she thought "hampering solar cleave is the primary reason for the change." While I do think limiting solar cleave is part of the reasoning, but I think that analysis ignores the significant issue of Multi-target vs Single Target DPS (yes, this is different the solar cleave). Not to get to sidetracked, but I view solar cleave as an AoE tactic. You get into Solar and hold it while DoTing as many targets as possible while using Mushrooms on CD and Hurricane if needed. In my opinion, with multi-target DPS we still maintain our rotation on a primary target but throw DoTs on a second and possibly third target when we can (the classic example being V&T in BoT). Some form of eclipse cleave will always exist as long as you have AoE and DoTs that are buffed by Eclipse, but this change with the change to Hurricane should limit it's positive and negative impacts. However, Hurricane has no impact on a moonkin's multi-target DPS so we can't expect that change to affect the Multi-Target vs Single Target issue.
What is the Multi-Target vs Single Target issue? What a lot of people forget in the heat of the moment is that none of these changes happen in a vacuum. Improving a moonkin's single target DPS isn't as simple as buffing the spells because that could make those same spells too strong in a multi target situation. If they buff our nukes but nerf our DoTs, that might fix the multi vs single target problem but they would also run the risk of putting us in a situation were we don't want to cast our DoTs like in WotLK and TBC. If they keep our DoTs strong but limit our nukes, then we are in the situation we currently are in.
So, how do they buff our single target DPS without buffing our multi-target DPS and keep our DoTs relevant to our rotation. One solution is to create a buff that affects only one target like the new Insect Swarm buff. This is one of the reasons why I think the Insect Swarm change is a good thing.
This isn't to say that I think the current design of Insect Swarm is perfect. This change doesn't happen in a vacuum either, and I do recognize that this design has some issues with PvP. I also don't want to have to refresh this buff in PvE even at a minute duration. However, I think those concerns are manageable. From a purely PvE perspective, they could add a glyph that causes your Starsurge to refresh the duration of Insect Swarm. Or, maybe your Rogue Symbiosis ability is a redirect type ability that would transfer all of our DoTs and debuffs to a new target. I'm not sure what the coding limitations are, but another option may be to have apply like Earth and Moon and have our DoTs on other targets adjust dynamically when targets gain and lose the debuff.
In short, I recognize that there are issues with the current Insect Swarm design, but I view the general direction as a good thing. Hopefully, Moonkin DPS won't be so lopsided in the future because of it.
Heart of the Wild: In for the Long Haul
One of the most common views expressed last week had more to do with a change that wasn't made then one that was. I saw several comments expressing exacerbation that HotW wasn't changed, fixed or removed. While I am no fan of Heart of the Wild, I would be a bit surprised if we saw any significant change in this ability any time soon. I think a lot of the people who expect this talent to change significantly are forgetting the design goals for druids that Blizzard expressed around Blizzcon. You may remember that Blizzard talked about bring back some of the druids hybrid nature and that some players missed being Shapeshifters. If that remains the design goal, this talent isn't going anywhere until at least the expansion after MoP.
I also wonder if we as moonkin are being a little hard on Heart of the Wild. To use an analogy that shows I watch too much Top Chef, I view DPSers as the traditional chefs of the player base with tanks and healers being the pastry chefs. Whenever you see a pastry chef on one of the cooking shows they seem contractually obligated to say "pastry chefs are the same as traditional chefs, but we can cook everything when they can't do pastry." I don't know if that's true or not in the kitchen, but I definitely think it's true with regard to the PvE roles in WoW. Tanks and healers have to have some experience DPSing because that's how you level most of the time, and DPS is the easiest roll in the game. Asking a DPS to heal or tank is riskier because those roles require tools that most DPSers are less familiar with and the basics of the tanking and healing roles aren't quite as obvious as the DPS role.
When I step away from my DPS bias, I notice that HotW has some potential in the right situation. Take the Ultraxion fight for example. It's a DPS race where the healing needs are light early in the fight but much heavier later. This would present an opportunity for managed HotW usage if a guild was struggling with the enrage timer on the fight. Resto Druids could pop their HotW cooldown early when healing is more stable and give the DPS a push to help them get over the enrage hurtle. Or, may be healing is only tight for short periods of time and could benefit from having a moonkin throw bomb heals on a single target for 45 seconds, allowing the raid to run with one less healer.
I'm still not a big fan of Heart of the Wild, but I do think its critics have been a little too hard on it. It's not going to be the exciting level 90 talent that some people want, and I seriously doubt it has any significance as an emergency tool. However, it does have the potential to help a raid group if used in a managed way where the raid's needs are made clear ahead of time.
The Moonkin Tank?
In no way do I think anything in the current MoP Talent calculator suggests that we will see a return of the TBC Panzerkin, but look at all the defensive cooldowns its possible for a druid to have in this calculator?
- Barkskin - The old stand by.
- Tier 2 - Nature's Swiftness or Renewal will probably be in almost every moonkin's tool belt.
- Dream of Cenarius - Would work very well with Nature's Swiftness but could also be helpful on its own.
- Might of Ursoc - Requires a little effort but could be very useful in an extreme situation.
- Movement & Control Options - Tiers 1, 3, & 5 are full of options that could be used to get a druid out of a sticky situation.
I've spent years, explaining deaths by saying Barkskin was on cooldown or I had already used my healthstone. It looks like we will have a lot more options to keep our selves a live in the next expansion and fewer excuses for early deaths.
Tier 5: The DPS Tier
Whenever I've discussed tier 5 of the new talent trees I've talked about the options in broad terms saying what I like about each talent on its own. Then I always finished the comment with a generic line like "but the best talent will be determined when we get more details and can math it out." This makes the tier sound really boring, and it was boring until the addition of Soul of the Forest and a little tweet from Murmurs. He asked:
@Graylo So ... am I crazy or does Soul of the Forest seem much better than Incarnation?
I did some extremely rough napkin math with a lot of assumptions that may or may not be correct and ended up agreeing with Murmur's assessment. Soul of the Forest does seem better then Incarnation in pure math terms, but I then realized that pure math will never make this tier interesting. If all the options improve DPS by about the same amount then it doesn't really matter which talent you pick, if one of the talents maths out to be clearly the best in most situations the choice obvious, and choice is boring in either situation.
The only thing that can make this tier interesting is design. Let's take Soul of the Forest and Incarnation as examples. The Dragon Soul raid has shown us that total DPS isn't always the best measurement when judging talents, glyphs, stats or any of the other DPS choices we make. There are a lot of fights like Ultraxion where total Sustained DPS is the most important thing and a talent like Soul of the Forest will likely shine. However, SotF is a horrible option on a fight like Spine of Deathwing where short term burst DPS is extremely important and Incarnation is clearly the better choice. A talent like Incarnation would also likely be a better option in a fight with lots of movement and down time like Morchok. This is a clear example of where design has created a significant choice even when numbers are involved.
To say the least, I am very happy with how Soul of the Forest and Incarnation are shaping up, but it begs the question of how is Force of Nature going to fit into this tier? Our trents are basically burst DPS as is. If the situation calls for burst then the choice of Incarnation vs Force of Nature would be easily mathed out. So, I'm hoping that Blizzard is planning a change.
Personally, I would like to see our third Tier 5 option to be AoE or Multi-target focused. The current versions of Soul of the Forest and Incarnation are both single target focused, so multi-target DPS could be a nice niche for the tier's third option. There are several ways that Blizzard could implement this. If Blizzard wants to keep the FoN structure they could give the trents some sort of cleave or splash damage for when targets are grouped together. I also wouldn't be opposed to scrapping Force of Nature entirely and making it a Tree of Life style buff that allowed us to put Insect Swarm on multiple targets and multi-dot. Another option would be to grant our nukes some splash damage for a short period of time.
Tier Choices: Advanced, Moderate, Dummy
Maybe I'm just being insecure, but several of the tiers and their choices seem to be designed with skill level in mind as well as the talents utility. Take Tier 1 for example:
- Feline Swiftness - Increase movement speed by 15%.
- Displacer Beast - Teleports druid 20 yards forward and activates cat form and prowl.
- Wild Charge - Six different affects based on form.
I realize that all of these options have their own advantages in the right situation, but you could also separate them based on the skill level needed to use them to their fullest potential. Wild Charge could be extremely powerful when used by a highly skilled player. Instead of being just one ability, Wild Charge can be six based upon what form the player is in, and a highly skilled player should be able to manage it in extraordinary ways. Displacer Beast is the moderate option in that it provides a short burst of movement, but its user activated and you have to be careful about where you land. Feline Swiftness on the other had seems like the default option that's nice but doesn't require any skill.
I'm probably being a little irrational, but I'm a little concerned that some of the talent choices will be dictated by a perception of skill. For example, I don't want to feel pressured to take Wild Charge because that is what the "good" moonkin take. I'm not sure how Blizzard could avoid it but there seems to be several choices in the tiers that may be made more based on perception of skill then the utility provided


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It was standing room only at the start of the Hendersonville City Council meeting Thursday as citizens, devastated by the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., pleaded with city leaders to ban assault rifles and high-volume magazine clips in city limits.
It was standing room only at the start of the Hendersonville City Council meeting Thursday as citizens, devastated by the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., pleaded with city leaders to ban assault rifles and high-volume magazine clips in city limits.
The issue overshadowed a budgeted discussion about whether the council should pass a resolution opposing any state laws that would allow forced water system mergers. The topic was removed from the meeting's agenda.
Jack Prather read the names of the December massacre's 26 victims "who happily awaited a visit from Santa Claus and instead got a visit from a monster."
Loyd Kinnett asked the city to make those who buy the assault weapons known to all police and the public.
Julie Gordon with the Department of Peace and Nonviolence said assault weapons are used to kill "as many people as possible as fast as possible."
"We have a crisis in our country," she said. "The average child of America sees 100,000 acts of violence before he leaves the eighth grade."
Gordon said "banning assault weapons is an action we can take."
"This is obviously an emotional issue for all of us," said Mayor Barbara Volk, who added that unfortunately, the city is limited in what it can and cannot do in regard to guns.
City attorney Sam Fritschner agreed the city's hands are tied when it comes to regulating firearms by ordinance, resolution or otherwise, except in the case of restricting their possession on government property and the discharge of weapons.
Volk added that the city already has those ordinances in place.
Councilman Jerry Smith advised the crowd that the people who can make significant changes would be state Reps. Chuck McGrady and Tom Apodaca.
Before the council adjourned, Councilman Jerry Smith asked city staff to look into options for staffing a student resource officer at Hendersonville Middle School. He said the current SRO at Hendersonville High is asked to look out for both schools, but finds it difficult to be in two places at once.
Smith said the other middle and high schools in the county are served by SROs provided by the Henderson County Sheriff's Office.
Smith also weighed in on the water system merger resolution.
"We at the city of Hendersonville work very hard to not be taken over by the General Assembly. We certainly oppose any intention to take our water and sewer system," he said, before a unanimous vote removed the item from the meeting's agenda for Thursday.
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Sarah was dining at the Fish Cafe with her friend Chris when she slipped on the highly polished floor and broke her leg. She was rushed to hospital where she was treated and given drugs to relieve the pain. As a result of the accident Sarah was off work for 4 months, and she incurred many medical and physiotherapy expenses. She became addicted to pain killers, which have cost a lot of money and have threatened her future carrer prospects
(1) What legal action is available to Sarah against either the proprietor of the cafe, the cleaner or the floor polish manufacturer?
(2) Would the situation be different if Sarah suffered her injury after breaking into the cafe with the intention of commitiing theft and arson?
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I just returned from the Berlin Film Festival this past week, where I attended the Berlinale Talent Campus/Power to the Pixel cross-media forums. The speakers at the forum were creators, producers and distributors investing in transmedia platforms such as Iron Sky, 18 Days in Egypt, Bear 71, Gaza-Sderot, and the Truth About Marika, among many others. What came clearly into focus from the juxtaposition of this range and variety of projects was that there is no one formula for creating a successful transmedia story in terms of style, architecture, or experience, but that (as obvious as this sounds) a strong and engaging story is crucial. This means that in order for you to achieve success with any transmedia platform, large or small, it is important to concentrate on a tight, engaging core story and from there, the architecture through which the elements of that story are extended.
In the case of transmedia activism and transmedia for social good-- the realms in which I primarily work-- the core of the story and the point should be about the change, the goal, or the solution. But there are different ways to conceive of "story." One is the "traditional" notion of narrative, in which there is a plot with some sort of conflict and resolution; characters, including protagonists and antagonists; and a narrative point of view. Think of Another is to tell the story of the issue and affected communities through a "campaign" structure, where the elements extended through multiple channels are actions and solutions, as opposed to or in addition to story extensions. Think of Medecins Sans Frontiere's "Starved for Attention" project, for example.
Participation and collaboration are also critical success factors. In fact, these are two of the factors that make transmedia such an interesting, potentially effective and disruptive innovation to social change efforts, in creating entry points into co-creation and dialogue. Social change and mobilization efforts require public and political participation. But in terms of actual social change, participation is an input, not an endpoint, and therefore community management and stewardship of the platform are important to flip participants and collaborators into sustainable action. Though not a "transmedia for good" project, take a look at the way Iron Sky was created through crowd participation in the director's video "Producing with the Audience" for inspiration here.
A simple platform is usually best, albeit not required to manage a successful transmedia-for-change platform. Large-scale projects aren't always necessary and can be distracting. They are also harder to finance, manage, and actualize. The point of an effective story isn't the bells and whistles, and technology for technology's sake. A concentration on technology is important where use of the technology is the best way to ensure participation and enhanced interaction, but the point is still the story and its continuum of narrative from core to extension to action. Also, keep it simple and contained, but connect your story to the larger movement: This is key for telling the story of a system, and investing in systemic change instead of a single story/point solution. This the principle on which the forthcoming platform Lakou Mizik* is being produced (in development).
Finally, relevance, resonance, and respect are indispensable in a transmedia-for-change story, where focus should lie on the community of interest or the affected community before elements are tailored to participants, "players," or audiences. There are of course instances where there isn't one community in particular, but the particular utility of transmedia in social change is that it allows multiple avenues for dialogue and the use of multiple stories to create empathy, humanization of the issues, and an attention to diverse perspectives. In create a community-centered story architecture, think about everyone who is in the community and ask yourself, what does each segment bring to the table, subsequently tailoring your story extensions to reach those segments. For an example of how this can be done, see 18 Days in Egypt. *Disclosure: I am currently working on this project.


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While both the well established Apple iPad and the newly announced Microsoft Surface are thin, powerful tablets of generous size, that seems to be about all they share in common.
The iPad is a singular, giant screen, with software dedicated for mobile, and a story that's all about the apps. Because it's been on the market since 2010, and built on the success of the iPhone, those apps now number in the hundreds of thousands, and the accessories are also plentiful.
The Surface is really two devices, a mobile running Windows RT and a cross-over running full Windows 8 Pro. The second one will have access to the massive Windows PC software library but the first will have to make its case for Metro apps. They both have USB ports and kickstands and other amenities that I really like but likely give Apple's Jony Ive the chills.
Because the Surface is like an iPad but is not an iPad, it might just appeal to people looking for exactly that, or for something in between an iPad and a MacBook Air (running Windows.)
On the downside, Microsoft didn't announce pricing, availability, or battery life, which, I'm not going to lie, are real concerns. And if the Windows 8 Pro version is expensive enough, a laptop, including a MacBook Air, might be a better alternative.
Apple is also getting ready to release iOS 6 this fall and likely an iPad 4 next spring. Depending when the Surface is actually released, who knows what that will bring to the table? Would you wait and see before deciding?
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The networks run by colleges and universities are three times more likely to be infected with malware than networks in government agencies or businesses, according to research by security vendor OpenDNS. The company also said that the EXPIRO family of malware was the most common type of threat experienced by the higher education sector. Both of those findings were announced at this week's Educause 2013 conference, taking place October 15–18 in Anaheim, CA.
The company pulled that information out of an analysis of data from its own network, which delivers cloud-based Web security services. OpenDNS said in a statement that it uses a combination of data analytics, graph theory, and machine learning to detect and block up to 80 million threats coming into its customers' systems every day.
"Our research shows that while higher education institutions face the same cyber-attacks as enterprises and government agencies, they tend to be compromised by malware and botnets at a much higher rate," said Chief Technology Officer Dan Hubbard. "Clearly, colleges and universities must operate more open networks and support an endless number of access devices which puts them at higher risk."
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A year after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing an estimated 316,000 people and leaving a million homeless, scientists say the region around the capital faces additional earthquake risks that weren't apparent prior to Jan. 12, 2010.
In the tragedy's aftermath, researchers have conducted dozens of studies and have found that:
• The fault responsible was not the fault many initially identified as the culprit, but appears to have been a previously unknown hidden fault. That means centuries of accumulated strain remains on scientists' initial suspect, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault.
• Strain has increased along this fault to the east and west of the region containing the fault that ruptured. The segments of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault under greater strain include one that runs much closer to Port-au-Prince than the fault linked to last January's quake.
• Aftershocks have revealed what appears to be an undersea fault offshore from the epicenter of last year's quake – a fault whose historic rupture rate, along with estimates of the magnitude of the quakes it could generate, are unknown.
What emerges is a picture of faulting in the area far more complex than the picture researchers had prior to last January's temblor – a picture they are trying to fill in.
"We need to better characterize the hazard in the region so that we know all the different faults that are players" contributing to the region's seismic hazards, says Gavin Hayes, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo., a member of one of two groups that independently exonerated the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault.
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The quake's epicenter was roughly seven miles southeast of the coastal town of Leogane, some 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince on the country's southern peninsula.
The Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, in effect part of a boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates, runs through the area.
But when members of Dr. Hayes's team arrived and hunted for fresh surface evidence of a rupture along the fault in that area, they found none. Typically, a strike-slip fault such as this, in which one crustal plate slides along the edge of another, would show fresh jogs in once-straight stream beds or other signs of lateral shifts. But the team found none.
Instead, after reviewing seismic information, along with information from satellites and boots-on-the-ground visits to various locations in the area, the team found that the landscape between the fault and the coast has been raised by as much as two feet. Once-submerged corals along the coast were now high and dry.
That suggested a hidden thrust fault, a conclusion borne out by modeling experiments built on the data the team collected.
"Most or all of the slip was on the Leongane fault," says Carol Prentice, an earthquake scientist at the US Geological Survey's office in Menlo Park, Calif., and another member of the team. But, she cautions, it's a modeled fault and will require more study to determine if it truly has a real-world counterpart.
A different group, same result
Another group, led by Purdue University geophysicist Eric Calais, came to a similar conclusion. Both groups published their results last October in the journal Nature Geoscience.
In follow-up studies using the presence of the newly proposed fault as a starting point, a group led by Jian Lin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution calculated the effect the quake had on strain along the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault. They found that the quake had increased strain along the fault to the east and west of the Leongane fault's rupture zone.
The eastern segment runs past Port-au-Prince a scant three miles from the city center.
"That is a major concern," Dr. Lin says.
But a few months ago, he continues, an analysis of aftershock data revealed something new: another possible fault on the sea floor not far offshore from Haiti's capital.
The fault's capacity for large earthquakes and how frequently the occur are unknown, he says.
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Ammonium hydroxide is a colorless liquid chemical solution that forms when ammonia dissolves in water. This article discusses poisoning due to ammonium hydroxide.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or a local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222.
Alternative Names
Aqueous – ammonia
Poisonous Ingredient
Ammonium hydroxide
Where Found
Ammonium hydroxide is found in many industrial products and cleaners such as flooring strippers, brick cleaners, and cements.
Ammonium hydroxide can also release ammonia gas into the air.
Ammonia alone (not ammonium hydroxide) can be found in many household items such as detergents, stain removers, bleaches, and dyes. The symptoms and treatment for ammonia exposure are similar to those for ammonium hydroxide.
Note: This list may not be all inclusive.
- Airways and lungs
- Breathing difficulty (from inhalation)
- Coughing
- Throat swelling (which may also cause breathing difficulty)
- Wheezing
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Severe pain in the throat
- Severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue
- Vision loss
- Esophagus, stomach, and intestines
- Blood in the stool
- Burns of the esophagus (food pipe) and stomach
- Severe abdominal pain
- Vomiting, possibly with blood
- Heart and blood
- Collapse
- Low blood pressure (develops rapidly)
- Severe change in pH (too much or too little acid in the blood, which leads to damage in all of the body organs)
- Skin
- Burns
- Holes in skin tissue (necrosis)
- Irritation
Home Treatment
Do NOT make the person throw up.
If ammonium hydroxide is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the person swallowed ammonium hydroxide, immediately give milk or water. Fruit juices may also be given. DO NOT give water, juice, or milk if the patient is having symptoms (such as vomiting, convulsions, or a decreased level of alertness) that make it hard to swallow.
If the person breathed in fumes, immediately move the patient to fresh air.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
- The patient's age, weight, and condition
- The name of the product (ingredients and strengths, if known)
- The time it was swallowed
- The amount swallowed
Poison Control, or a local emergency number
In the United States, call 1-800-222-1222 to speak with a local poison control center. This hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
What to expect at the emergency room
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure.
The patient may receive:
Bronchoscopy— camera down the throat to see burns in the airways and lungs Endoscopy— camera down the throat to see burns in the esophagus and the stomach
- Fluids by IV
- Medicines to treat symptoms
- Oxygen and breathing support
- Skin debridement (surgical removal of burned skin)
- Washing of the skin (irrigation) — perhaps every few hours for several days
Some patients may be admitted to the hospital.
Expectations (prognosis)
Survival past 48 hours usually indicates recovery will occur. If a
How well a patient does depends on the strength of the chemical and how fast the poison was diluted and neutralized. Extensive damage to the mouth, throat, eyes, lungs, esophagus, nose, and stomach are possible.
The ultimate outcome depends on the extent of this damage. Damage continues to occur to the esophagus and stomach for several weeks after the poison was swallowed, and death may occur as long as a month later.


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Have you ever experienced that feeling of making a new friend too fast? That sensation that you ought to pull away from someone cause you? That, maybe, even though things have gone smoothly so far, its still risky to be going out on a limb so fast for someone so new?
I'm not talking about an acquaintance here. Not that 'oh this person was interesting I'd like to get to know them better' feeling or the 'we have a lot in common feeling' but the actual transformation from being a name you'd vaguely heard of into a proper – trusted – friend within days.
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Widener University, PECO and Exelon Foundation Partner on Innovative Science and Math Education Program
PECO and the Exelon Foundation have announced a grant of $1 million to Widener University to expand educational opportunities for students at the Widener Partnership Charter School in Chester.
The grant -- $750,000 from PECO and $250,000 from the Exelon Foundation -- will help the school improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education resources as the school expands to serve seventh and eighth graders over the next two years. The grant also will fund new programs to encourage parental involvement and a feasibility study of school expansion options.
"Widener Partnership Charter School has created a very special learning environment for its students in the city of Chester," said Denis P. O'Brien, senior executive vice president of PECO's parent company Exelon, CEO of Exelon Utilities, and board member of the Exelon Foundation. "We are proud to join forces with Widener, and the residents of Chester, to invest in the future of our young people and help them acquire the skills they will need to be successful members of a global workforce."
The Widener Partnership Charter School was launched in 2006 as a joint venture of Widener University and a coalition of community residents. In six years, the school has become a model for university-sponsored charter schools. It is unique in its emphasis on holistic education, partnering with parents and utilizing university faculty, students and resources to enrich the educational experience.
The STEM program includes afterschool and Saturday supplemental instruction to educate and build on that interest throughout the student's middle school education. Coupled with a community education program designed to increase parent/caregiver involvement in their children's learning, the grant helps provide the capacity to support student academic success. The funding supports the expansion of the existing Widener-run parent education program to include STEM-related workshops. PECO employees also will participate in an after-school mentoring program.
"We are very grateful for the investment that PECO and the Exelon Foundation have made in the future of the students in the Widener Partnership Charter School," said Widener University President James T. Harris III. "These students already believe that they can be world changers, and with the knowledge and resources of such a strong corporate partner like PECO, their dreams and aspirations of becoming scientists, doctors, engineers and community leaders are that much closer to reality."
With a principal focus on math, science and environmental education, PECO supports programs which encourage students from all backgrounds to stay in school, develop their talents and continue their education beyond high school. Since 1969, PECO has sponsored the Philadelphia Academies' Academy of Applied Electrical Science. As part of its mission, the Exelon Foundation supports innovative math and science education programs in the communities the Exelon family of companies serves. In February 2012, the foundation announced a $500,000 contribution to help launch a STEM partnership school at Aurora University that will serve students in the third through eighth grades.
In 2011, PECO invested $1 million in a similar collaboration with Drexel University to enhance STEM resources at schools in the Mantua/Powelton Village communities.
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Western Digital Red 3TB SATA SOHO NAS Drive - Full Review
Introduction and Internals
I'm going to let the cat out of the bag right here and now. Everyone's home RAID is likely an accident waiting to happen. If you're using regular consumer drives in a large array, there are some very simple (and likely) scenarios that can cause it to completely fail. I'm guilty of operating under this same false hope - I have an 8-drive array of 3TB WD Caviar Greens in a RAID-5. For those uninitiated, RAID-5 is where one drive worth of capacity is volunteered for use as parity data, which is distributed amongst all drives in the array. This trick allows for no data loss in the case where a single drive fails. The RAID controller can simply figure out the missing data by running the extra parity through the same formula that created it. This is called redundancy, but I propose that it's not.
Continue on for our full review of the solution to this not-yet-fully-described problem!
Since I'm also guilty here with my huge array of Caviar Greens, let me also say that every few weeks I have a batch job that reads *all* data from that array. Why on earth would I need to occasionally and repeatedly read 21TB of data from something that should already be super reliable? Here's the failure scenario for what might happen to me if I didn't:
- Array starts off operating as normal, but drive 3 has a bad sector that cropped up a few months back. This has gone unnoticed because the bad sector was part of a rarely accessed file.
- During operation, drive 1 encounters a new bad sector.
- Since drive 1 is a consumer drive it goes into a retry loop, repeatedly attempting to read and correct the bad sector.
- The RAID controller exceeds its timeout threshold waiting on drive 1 and marks it offline.
- Array is now in degraded status with drive 1 marked as failed.
- User replaces drive 1. RAID controller initiates rebuild using parity data from the other drives.
- During rebuild, RAID controller encounters the bad sector on drive 3.
- Since drive 3 is a consumer drive it goes into a retry loop, repeatedly attempting to read and correct the bad sector.
- The RAID controller exceeds its timeout threshold waiting on drive 3 and marks it offline.
- Rebuild fails.
At this point the way forward varies from controller to controller, but the long and short of it is that the data is at extreme risk of loss. There are ways to get it all back (most likely without that one bad sector on drive 3), but none of them are particularly easy. Now you may be asking yourself how enterprises run huge RAIDs and don't see this sort of problem? The answer is Time Limited Error Recovery - where the hard drive assumes it is part of an array, assumes there is redundancy, and is not afraid to quickly tell the host controller that it just can't complete the current I/O request. Here's how that scenario would have played out if the drives implemented some form of TLER:
- Array starts off operating as normal, but drive 3 has developed a bad sector several weeks ago. This went unnoticed because the bad sector was part of a rarely accessed file.
- During operation, drive 1 encounters a new bad sector.
- Drive 1 makes a few read attempts and then reports a CRC error to the RAID controller.
- The RAID controller maps out the bad sector, locating it elsewhere on the drive. The missing sector is rebuilt using parity data from the other drives in the array.
- Array continues normal operation, with the error added to its event log.
The above scenario is what would play out with an Areca RAID controller (I've verified this personally). Other controllers may behave differently. A controller unable to do a bad sector remap might have just marked drive 1 as bad, but the key is that the rebuild would be much less likely to fail as drive 3 would not drop completely offline once the controller ran into the additional bad sector. The moral of this story is that typical consumer grade drives have data error timeouts that are far longer than the drive offline timeout of typical RAID controllers, and without some form of TLER, two bad sectors (totaling 1024 bytes) is all that's required to put multiple terabytes of data in grave danger.
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The Solution:
The solution should be simple - just get some drives with TLER. The problem is that until now those were prohibitively expensive. Enterprise drives have all sorts of added features like accelerometers and pressure sensors to compensate for sliding in and out of a server rack while operating, as well as dealing with rapid pressure changes that take place when the server room door opens and the forced air circulation takes a quick detour. Those features just aren't needed in that home NAS sitting on your bookshelf. What *is* needed is a Caviar Green with TLER, and Western Digital aims to deliver that, among other things:
For this review I have assembled all of the usual suspects that I've seen folks put into their home arrays (myself included). We have all three flavors of the Caviar Green (6Gb/sec, 3Gb/sec, and the AV-specific one meant for DVRs). I've also tossed in the Caviar Black and for the rich folks out there the enterprise grade RE4-GP and its faster spinning RE4 cousin. The 1TB VelociRaptor is included to give us some high-end perspective.
The Dirty Dozen (well, 2/3rd of it anyway).
Sorry I won't be cracking this guy completely open, but here are some shots of what was accessible, including the back of the PCB:
A fast 6Gb/sec Marvell controller is assisted by 64MB of Samsung DDR2 cache. This should give us some good burst figures for sure.
Moving right along...>
put that in a Adrobo and i think you be good to go.
Actually, do we know whether Drobos are or are-not affected by a drive dropping out for "too long?"
I ask because the blurb on their website for their "BeyondRAID" technology say: "Built on an advanced virtualization platform..." [<-- this tells me nothing]
and also
"Since the technology works at the block level, it can write blocks of data that alternate between data protection approaches."
My thinking here is that Drobos seem to be really smart about not exploding their own data, even on cheap and buggy drives. (Also, it would be nice if someone tells me I don't have to suddenly start worrying about this exact problem on the several Drobos I am acquainted with...)
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You're talking about the TLER issue non-enterprise wd drives had while in raid setups.... I don't believe it'll be an issue here.
DROBO is NOT MAGIC. The quality of your drives CLEARLY counts.
I have used WD 1.5GB/2.0TB Greens in my 5 bay drobo and twice now in two years one of the drives has failed corrupting my data. Almost identical failures, the drive has bad sectors but its SMART reporting says its perfectly healthy. DROBO still thinks the drives are healthy, only thing that alerts you is on a reboot Win7 says your partition has a few unrecoverable files and it cannot fix them when it tries. Only way to find out ~which~ is the bad drive is to run WD's diagnostic tools for many hours per drive and sure enough you'll find the bad one in the stack. Replace it and then restore from backup - getting tired of this and its what I spent big bucks over an internal raid to try to avoid.
Backup, backup, backup.
Now that I know this stuff about TLER etc, I just ordered 5 WD Reds as a complete replacement slide em in and we'll see how they do. Thanks for the great article Allyn.
Totally agree here. While the Drobo is very flexible with migrations, rebuilds, etc, the Drobo treats drive timeouts just like any other high end RAID system, and will benefit just as greatly from TLER-enabled drives.
It depends on how BeyondRAID works, and that I am not sure of.
It is worth mentioning that software raid solutions (MDADM and ZFS primarily)aren't subject to this issue. In the case a drive is taking to long to recover they will just cancel the operation and resubmit it, and should that fail again it will rebuild the bad stripe.
Also, TLER is on the firmware for every drive WD makes, but ever since they locked the firmware you cannot enable it on the green drives. Dirty money-grubbing bastards. With that being said, the raid drives do have other features (rotational vibration compensation, floating head, feed forward reading and all of that). Because of this though, I will probably never buy a WD drive again. Seagate wins the price vs performance debate hands down.
But ZFS takes integrity further with background checking of blocks for corruption, and repairing / remapping PROACTIVELY.
I have owned various odd-sized drives (mostly WD consumer line) that eventually exceeded their SMART thresholds & would instantly draw a flurry of errors when directly attached in FreeBSD or even Windows 7--yet Drobo Dashboard would give them a clean bill upon initialization in my 2nd gen "appliance." Since discovering this lovely quirk of the good old storage robot's mysterious workings I've been wary of keeping anything on it too long without a fresh offline backup.
I wish you guys would have put a comparison of the blue drive as well. I think Blue version is very popular giving great prices and decent performance. I really would have liked to see this Red drive compared to the Blue
Are these drives using the 1TB platters? (i.e. Do you think there would be any big performance drops between the 2TB and 3TB models?)
Yes, these are 1TB/platter drives afaik. I'll ask Allyn for that second question. I'm guessing the 2TB would be a bit slower than the 3TB but whether its enough to really be noticeable I dunno.
The gouge I got from WD suggests all three capacities should be nearly identical in performance. All three use 1TB per platter - lower capacities just have less platters, but the same density, so yeah, performance should not vary wildly among them.
TLER used to be something you could enable on WD consumer drives. They removed this capability in newer drives. Do these dock their heads every few seconds like Green drives do/did back the last time I looked at platter drives?
I hate to be a cynic with nothing nice to say, but I'm not looking to do an enterprise datacenter RAID nor am I looking for a home server RAID. I'm looking for a workstation RAID-1 that is hardware failure resistant (and potentially with faster read speeds) and high performance (like my TLER enabled cav black 1TB drives). . .or just a single drive that's backed with a long warranty and a data recovery guarantee.
I certainly don't, I bought my last few drive purchases in pairs to RAID-1 against hardware failure with the understanding that if the volume failed to recover I'd be whipping out Recuva and other utilities to pick my files up.
How hard is it to physically take apart a drive and remove the platters? I'd like to see it done!
I believe the head dock time has been extended to minimize repeated cycling.
I would recommend these over Greens for anything involving any sort of redundant RAID (your pairs included). I say this because the features are definitely worth it vs. the cost, and TLER is absolutely a good thing to have for those configurations. The flip side to this is if you also need superior random access performance for that same RAID, in which case I'd say go with VelociRaptors or even RE series drives (both also have TLER). Since TLER 'gives up' on bad sectors faster than a normal drive would, you should use them in redundant arrays. For single mass storage drives I'd say go Green, Blue, or Black - those will try harder to recover a bad sector, but that will only work properly outside of an array.
Finally - modern drives are *way* too dense and precise to open outside of a clean room. The last drive I did a head pack swap with was an 80GB unit. You can't do the steamy shower trick either :).
not only sleeps with them but also showers with them ...nobody knows drives better than Allyn :)
> How hard is it to physically take apart a drive and remove the platters? I'd like to see it done!
If you have a set of TORX screwdrivers, it is very easy to take apart a drive and remove its platters.
Nevertheless, you must never do this, unless you intend to dump afterwards the HDD as garbage. A HDD cannot be put together again, after being taken apart, unless all it is done in a special clean room, with special tools.
Something I've yet to see in a review about these Red drives are comparisons to other manufacturers' drives. Yes, WD only offers TLER on the RE and Red lines, but many manufacturers offer the same functionality on all their drives under the name CCTL. The warranty and MTBF is nice, but I'd rather have 7200rpm Barracudas with CCTL than these 5xxxrpm Reds. Especially in a RAID5 environment where random IO performance is important, spindle speed matters.
Could you post some details of the script you run on your raid. I am sure there are plenty of us that already have a WD green drive raid and can't afford to replace the whole raid in the short term.
From what I've heard and implemented myself, for large arrays, like the one mentioned, RAID-6 is recommended for increased security and indeed the increase likelihood of read-failure.
Regarding the read issues on specific drives, SMART should be used to continuously monitor the drive status: temperature, number of bad sectors, spin-up count, ... Further SMART can and on large arrays should be configured for periodic tests:
* short self-tests
* long self-tests
* or partial long self-tests
This allowed me for example to detect recently a failing WD EARS 2g drive and replace in time.
Since TLER cause a timeout in the recovery of a sector how does it affect the possible relocating of the sector in case it's no good anymore? Won't it prohibit the drive from finding out whether or not the sector is bad?
TLER just means the drive considers the sector bad sooner than it would if it was a consumer drive. It won't be able to relocate the bad sector while it's bad, but it will know it's bad so hopefully the next time a write is attempted to the same spot it will then write to the spare area.
Note: for Advanced Format drives, logical sectors are part of larger physical sectors on the disk, so you're remapping 4K at a time, not 512B.
You mentioned that you've been running a batch job to read the whole RAID array on a regular basis. That sounds like a good idea which I should do on my home NAS.
How are you accomplishing that feat? Do you get some type of a report that would tell you Disk 3 had a bad sector so you could deal with that before encountering a failure of Disk 1 (and subsequent RAID rebuild failure)? I assume that if you're aware of this type of problem then simply trying to copy the file will trigger a problem for the RAID controller? And in the case of the Areca controller it should automatically recover the problem for you?
Do you know if the integrated RAID controllers on Intel and AMD motherboards also copy bad sectors the way you mentioned Areca handles this problem?
One thing that was unclear to me about RAID5 ... does one bad sector on any disk guarantee a RAID rebuild failure? Shouldn't it be possible to rebuild the rest of the RAID array and simply have one corrupted file instead of losing the whole RAID array?
For several years WD had been recommending not using their Green drives in RAID arrays. Recently I saw they okayed their use in 2 drive (RAID0 or RAID1) configurations. Given WD recommendation I have avoided using them in RAID5.
Too bad WD didn't make these Red drives with an Unrecoverable Read Error rate of 10^15 versus the typical 10^14 for a consumer drive. That seems to be one advantage that Samsung drives have. Many are rated at 10^15, but now that Seagate has taken over Samsung HDD not sure how long that will remain true.
Great article. Appreciated all your hard work compiling and sharing these results.
Yeah.. the scenario described is precisely why I don't run any kind of hardware RAID on a home server.
Right now the flavor of choice is ZFS and RAID-Z. zpool scrub for the win. :)
This may be a stupid question but here goes. Could regular use of some kind of hdd utility such as "spinrite" go some way to preventing problems( i say stupid because i don't even know if such utilities are able to be ued with a raid set up.)?
You could use a utility like SpinRite, but you would have to take the RAID offline, run SpinRite on each drive individually, and then bring the RAID back online. I'm not sure I'd recommend this option.
You could try to run SpinRite on a RAID while it is online at level 2, and it would do something similar to reading the entire RAID, but SpinRite does not have true block level access to the drive itself like it expects when drives are in RAID (other than RAID 0)
With the controller logic being on the *drive* side of modern drives, there are severe limits to what Spinrite can accomplish. It's a great tool for exercising the entire drive surface by reading / writing / etc. Spinrite is coded to not timeout so easily on read errors, so it has a much more likely chance of making it across the whole disk span and prompting bad sectors to be mapped out, etc. Attempting the same feat under Windows would likely cause the drive to disappear after Windows gives up trying to access it after repeated errors.
Yes, I've been obsessing about this "bit error" issue on my Synology RAID-5 setup for some weeks now.
I thought my setup was safe as long as there was no fire or theft … but it seems that bit rot can creep into your array without noticing it until it's too late.
Me too, I'm using Caviar Greens because those Enterprise drives are just WAY too pricy for a consumer like me.
Those RED drives really seem like the answer for me.
I'm just wondering whether there is a difference when using a true hardware RAID Areca/promise controller and a NAS like Synology/QNAP ?
As Synology is more a software raid solution, I think they compensate for TLER on consumer drives, so the drive won't be kicked out of the array. Is this correct?
Would RAID-6 offer any benefits above RAID-5 concerning these 'bit errors' ?
Until I can get my hands on some RED's, I'm using another NAS in JBOD to make a weekly backup.
But I'd prefer a true solid which provides a "disk failure and bit-error proof" setup…
RAID-6 should theoretically be better able to cope with bit rot. If bit rot was detected during a regular read, or preferably during a scheduled scan, it will have double the parity available. Remember that bit rot could just as easily corrupt the parity information as the data stored. With a dual parity setup it's possible to compare all three solutions, and with any luck two of the answers will come up equal meaning that the third, dissimilar answer is corrupt.
Now all of that is theoretical and only one possibility of how it can be handled by the controller or RAID software. AFAIK each sector on the HDD has a CRC checksum that should allow the drive to detect most cases of bit rot at the root. And with big sectors such as the WD Advanced Format they can even correct some cases of bit errors on the fly.
All of this is assuming that the bit rot is caused by instabilities in the media, however much more data is actually lost to software bugs and user errors, and unfortunately there is no RAID level that will help protect data from PEBKAC or programming errors.
Hi Allyn,
Would using the WD red make sense in a non-RAID environment?
If you just wish to store data which is not regularly read or written to; just for on-line storage would the red be a good option?
Kind Regards
Simon Zerafa
WD needs a refresh and update to their RE4's badly.
How are software RAID setups (like mdadm) affected by these features (or lack thereof)?
They aren't. See my above reply for more information.
Software RAID is quickly becoming the defacto standard among home users for this reason.
Nevermind, I did some RTFMing, the lack of TLER does not seem to be a problem for mdadm, which matches my anecdotal experience.
Hi guys, I have a 4 drive NAS, that's configured as solo drives (Non-raid configuration). Is this new Red drives recommended for such a configuration? Or would it be better to just use Green drives, as my Nas isn't configured as a RAID. Hope someone can enlighten me here. Thanks
front load washing machines have been using this method to counter-balance your dirty ginch for years and years ;)
Quick question!
I'm not a raid expert, but the example scenario you outline pops a few questions into my head.
Example 1:
Drive 1 goes offline, and during rebuild another hidden bad sector pops up in Drive 3 and kills the rebuild.
Example 2:
Drive 1 goes offline because the TLER reports the bad sector to the RAID card, and quickly address the issue using parity data from somewhere else.
There seems to be three factors, TLER vs non TLER, how a raid card address a bad sector, and the chance another bad sector would appear during a rebuild. The article makes it seem as if the Areca controller saved the day.
I draw this conclusion because Example 1 indicates the array fails because the raid controller failed to address the bad sector on Drive 1. Leaving the chance that a bad sector could appear during a rebuild, aka Drive 3. Whereas Example 2 has the array function because the drive reported the bad sector and the raid card address the issue correctly.
So the question I have is what is the timeout duration of a consumer drive to a TLER equipped drive? Is it a matter of hours? or days?
The question stems from the fact that I have several consumer drives in RAID-5 on a Areca 1231ML. I'd consider a over time upgrade, but if a TLER vs non TLER drive report a bad sector within days of each other, the card I have should address it correctly?
Appreciate the help.
Interesting. I just orderd 8 WD RED and I am looking at RAID-cards now. Areca seems to be one of the best or am i wrong? I want a hardware-RAID-card that can recover from "small" errors. RE4 are too pricy. I already have a QNAP639pro (6 WD black 1TB). That's worked perfect since the beginning. They (6x WD black 1TB) have run for well over 2 years 24/7 now and I espect a failur.. So I am building a new server after repleasing the drives in my QNAP-NAS with WD RED and 2 for and other RAID. Then I build a second with 2012 Essencial server when it appears and use the NAS as a backup for the new server. But I dont know if I am going to use WD RED or the pricy RE4/RE4-GP..
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Interesting. I just orderd 8 WD RED and I am looking at RAID-cards now. Areca seems to be one of the best or am i wrong? I want a hardware-RAID-card that can recover from "small" errors. RE4 are too pricy. I already have a QNAP639pro (6 WD black 1TB). That's worked perfect since the beginning. They (6x WD black 1TB) have run for well over 2 years 24/7 now and I espect a failur.. So I am building a new server after repleasing the drives in my QNAP-NAS with WD RED and 2 for and other RAID. Then I build a second with 2012 Essencial server when it appears and use the NAS as a backup for the new server. But I dont know if I am going to use WD RED or the pricy RE4/RE4-GP..
Areca cards are great! However very pricey. Which is why I was I posted the question above your post.
BUT as a person who owns one of these cards, I'd move away from it. Why? ZFS is a better storage system. Grab a AMD cpu (because it supports ECC), get ECC ram, and load a OS that supports ZFS. From what I hear it is a much more reliable storage system than RAID.
I would have done this myself, but I didn't learn about ZFS until after my purchase. Secondly, I have nearly 6TBs across 8 drives. Moving that amount of data would be a pain.
Lastly, if you really decide to go with an Areca card. Try to find them second hand. I picked up my 1231ML for $375 used. Run a google search on the key phrase : "FS Areca", and sorta by date.
Good luck!
Do any of you see a problem using these drives in a 12 bay NAS running FreeNAS? ZFS/2
The WD site just says for up to 5 bays.. Is this just marketing hype> Or do you think these drives will be OK for large bay NAS enclosures?
Thought? Thanks
As I understand it, It's because the RED drives lack vibration sensors and pressure sensors.
However, I'm also speculating in using 15 of these babies in a file server for private use.
I'm really wondering if this will actually be a problem or not....
As I understand it, It's because the RED drives lack vibration sensors and pressure sensors.
However, I'm also speculating in using 15 of these babies in a file server for private use.
I'm really wondering if this will actually be a problem or not....
I would really love to hear more about your 15 drive setup. Care to share some more details?
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A while back WD Red 3TB was selling for $169.99 now that I want to buy it is about $259.99 any idea if the prices would drop to below $200 and why the sudden increase in price?
Would you recommend the RED series if you don't use a RAID solution. Why, i'll running Windows Home Server 2011 that have 4 drives and i'll make (lessons learned) a robocopy once a week to een external esata drive of my important DATA.
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"I have an 8-drive array of 3TB WD Caviar Greens in a RAID-5."
This array is just a disaster waiting to happen. Consider the situation when one of your drives fails: you're left with 7-drive RAID 0 array! And if the thought of housing your important data on such a large RAID 0 array doesn't make your pulse race, you're either an idiot (sorry) or the data wasn't that important to begin with.
When you replace the failed drive of an (n-1)-drive degraded array, the rebuild process places the greatest strain on the array when it is most vulnerable. It may seem counterintuitive, but at some point an n-drive RAID 5 array is more likely to fail and suffer complete data loss than a single large disk with no redundancy. I think n=8 is well beyond that point. This has actually been studied scientifically here: http://media.netapp.com/documents/rp-0046.pdf
Conclusion, large RAID 5 arrays are not safe. You need at least a RAID 6 configuration.
As for whether TLER actually improves the safety of the array, I think some of the other comments have covered this already.
I had some green disks in my NAS and had to do the update with wdidle3 to come over the 8 sec park issue. Is this same fix also needed on these drives?
I find it interesting (and very depressing and confusing) that the only Raid storage devices listed on WD's certified Red drive compatibility list are devices that previously included Green drives in the manufacturer's own compatibility lists.
These include Drobos, and the Synology, QNAP, et al software Raid NAS boxes. It is my understanding that the NAS boxes all use Linux MDADM under the covers of their proprietary user interfaces. It is also my understanding that Synology SHR, for example, is simply a well built user interface over Linux LVM.
Suspiciously absent from the list are any of the hardware Raid controllers and devices that use various hardware Raid controllers.
If the above is factually correct then it calls into question the true value of Red drives. We can argue the merits of using Red drives in hardware Riad solutions, but the fact is that if you do have a problem, and you attempt to get support from your Raid controller maker, he will give you a simple response: "We don't support Red drives so we cannot tell you why your Raid array dropped (or regularly drops).
Seems to me there is little or no value in attempting to use Raid for an increased level of protection if the controller maker will not support it. It is, in that way, no better than using Green drives.
It calls into question the value of Red drives. I've read a lot of discussion (mostly speculation) about these new drives but never seen my concerns mentioned or discussed.
As an afterthought, I use a SansDigital TR4UTBPN 4 bay eSata/USB3 external Raid/JBOD enclosure. I know, having read their now defunct support forum for many years, that in every case where someone reported Raid array failure or frequent rebuilding problems that they washed their hands of the matter by simply pointing out that they don't support those drives in that enclosure (or any other Raid enclosure they well). You are totally on your own.
They are not listed on WD's Red drive compatibility (lists as are no other hardware Raid devices that previously only recommended or certified Enterprise drives). Nor do they specifically address Reds on their site (and their HCL list is not easy to find).
I recently submitted a support ticket asking if they supported Red drives. They initially just said "no, they have never been tested".
When I persisted and asked *why* they have not tested those drives, they responded by saying that because WD did not include them on their list they had no interest in testing them. I found that a strange response- does the tail wag the dog or the dog wag the tail?
Anyway, since I have no interest in using non-supported drives in a Raid device, I will continue to run the box in JBOD mode, as I always, have for the same reason, with the Green drives I currently use.
IOW, nothing has changed, except we consumers can now speculate about all the various vague claims by the various manufacturers of hard drives and the boxes that use them, and how the Raid system might respond to bad sectors.
A sad state of affairs.
Can you persistantly patch the red drives to disable tler or change its setting for desktop use?
Great review Allyn !
Very informative.
Bought 2 WD20EFRX (2TB)
Seriously. This is a piece of crap drive. I just lost all my data after 2 weeks old. Trying to recover and the whole drive is in raw and extremely slow trying to access it.
Was good for the first week. Then boom!!!! Instant poop.
Really the Reds seem to be Greens rebranded with new firmware/ram.. Unless you are using hardware RAID (and running 24/7) they are not worth it... Go up to enterprise (actual enterprise) drives and never look back..
Also people with early failures aren't stressing their builds before putting drives etc into production.. I've never lost data due to early failure.. I've lost a green due to head parking though in a NAS.. WDIDLE is a must for greens - and probably reds)..


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