[Tfug] WD "green"

[Steven Bowers]

Take a look at NAS4Free. IIRC it's developed by the same person who created FreeNAS. With BSD at it's core it should be more reliable than anything by Linksys. 

On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:19 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> On 2/21/2014 8:52 PM, Steve B wrote:
>> I have one in a NAS4Free box. The OS resides on a 1GB flash drive and the
>> WD Green acts as the actual data storage drive. To date I've never had any
>> issues, but then again I only power it up when I need my NAS. It does not
>> run 24x7.
> 
> This one came out of a small, 2 drive NAS.  It's been giving me
> problems for quite some time, now.  The NAS design (NAS200) is known
> to have thermal issues but this box is well vented.  And, the
> "problems" aren't things like the drive being unresponsive
> (I am typically accessing the OTHER drive in the box) but, rather,
> the entire *box* hanging (web interface goes silent, SMB shares
> disappear from the network, etc.)
> 
> So, it's possible that the software is "confused" waiting for the
> drive to respond, etc.
> 
> I'll see how the box fares with that drive missing.
> 
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