That's an unfair and over simplified statement that lacks background. There are circumstances where having a multitude of products is silly, look at the asus line-up of p45 boards a year back. They had a board at every 5$ price point. Literally, 5$ more got you a different asus board. There had to of been about 10 or 11 p45 boards out at the time and all had varying features and each one a compromise from the last and before the next. It was really wierd...
but in the circumstances of hard drives, your statement is definitely over simplified. So you're saying that there's no call for a WD green? You're saying the package is entirely the same between a WD green and a WD black? They're a different product entirely that operates differently. You've vocalized an irrational expectation that disturbs me a little, being one of our more demanding users in the storage market.
Also, western digital drives will work fine in RAID 1 and RAID 0 configurations, but in RAID 5 where the raid card should handle errors, that's where you'll have problems with TLER. In RAID 0 and 1, the drives still act and are treated as individual drives, but when it comes to RAID 5, a totally different thing occurs. The thing is, neither have any kind of complicated parity built into it. RAID 1 is 1:1, it's just "write the same stuff to both drives".
There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. I'll stick around to clear it up. BTW, WD may be making the best possible choice right now. It seems to be a trend all around the world at the moment, just look at AT&T as a huge example with their 2GB plan atm... a lot of companies are finding that it's easier to scale things back and not provide as much service than it is to continue expanding. Perhaps companies are reaching terminal velocity?
