@bobiroc
Unfortunately the drive manufactures are making you buy the enterprise drives (much more expensive) because they turned off some part of the firmware code that works with raid in the cheaper drives. Wasn't raid supposed to be used with Inexpensive Disks, not any more.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1397&p_created=1131638613&p_sid=vLrIp*fk&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_srch=1&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjQsMjQmcF9wcm9kcz0yMjcmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PTEuMjI3JnBfY3Y9JnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9cmFpZA!!&p_li=&p_topview=1
BS from WD on why the desktop drives can't be used in raid, which they used to be.
We can thank corporate greed for this.
Jeff
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