I’ve seen a lot of people say that the Green WD AV-GP drives aren’t good for RAID mirroring.
Does this also apply to the new Windows 8 Drive Spaces feature?
WD Green drives, are recommended for use as secondary storage drives. For RAID configurations, you might be interested in the WD RE or the WD Red line of hard drives. Check the links below for more information.
Support for WD desktop drives in a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/996
Difference between Desktop edition (WD Blue, WD Green and WD Black) and RAID (Enterprise) edition drives
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397
WD Red overview
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810
WD RE overview
