Would a Drobo benefit from TLER (Western Digital) or ERC (Seagate)?

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Published on 2009-09-01T17:52:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 21:13 UTC
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Since Drobo's so-called "BeyondRAID" is analogous to a custom RAID 5 implementation, will using a drive with Time-Limited Error Recovery features enabled be of benefit to the Drobo array? I haven't been able to find any information in the Drobo knowledgebase.

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