Re:An Introduction to ZFS
by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:50AM
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I have a WD Purple I bought in 2014 and it's been running continuously since. 18 months seems extremely short.
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Isn't Purple for things like camera feeds? Good on writes, bad on reads.
Re:An Introduction to ZFS
by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:48AM
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This seems to be the conventional wisdom but I can't say I've experienced it in practice. They have less cache than Reds and the firmware may be tuned for writes but I think it's mostly down to different market positioning/branding & price. You can compare the two: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library... and https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...