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Re: Which SATA Drives?
- Subject: Re: Which SATA Drives?
- From: "domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:05:41 -0000
Hmmm, the difference between 'enterprise' and normal maybe only the
price.
Before you part with your cash I suggest you dig out the Google
research on hard drive faults in their platform.
Little snippets include:
- 50% of the time, drives fail instantly, with no SMART indicator or
any kind.
- Activity doesn't have any direct correlation to failure rate.
etc.
Obviously they were using older commodity drives in their platform,
but they don't use one vendor, or (seemingly) type of drive.
IIRC, I think a particular note was made about enterprise drives not
being noticeably more reliable...
Dom
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@...> wrote:
>
> All
>
> Following on from Phil's example I now have my mac mini all setup as
> a server but I need some additional external drives for storage.
>
> I have decided on one of the 4 drive Sata to Firewire cases from Span.
>
> Initially I only need 2 Drives (will be RAID 1), I am looking at
> around 320Gb drives and they will be running 24*7.
>
> So does anyone have recommendations on good drives to buy?
>
> I can see the Seagate Barracuda ES drives are passed for 24*7
> operations and have a 5 year warranty.
>
> Any thoughts and advice much appreciated
>
> Regards
> Ben
>
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