Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

From: Thanasis
Date: Mon Dec 31 2007 - 02:34:32 EST


on 12/31/2007 12:42 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following:
>
> Of course there are "RAID edition" hard drives with a feature called TLER
> (Time Limited Error Recovery) which stops the hard drive from entering into
> a deep recovery cycle. The hard drive will only spend 7 seconds to attempt
> to recover. This means that the hard drive will not be dropped from a RAID
> array. But these "special" hard drives are way too expensive IMHO just for a
> small firmware-based feature.

WD 2500YS
price same as an IDE or SATA
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