Re: Re: Which SATA Drives?

[Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like I should go for the drive with the longest warranty.
Looks like the best way to be covered


On 23 Sep 2007, at 11:44, Phil Harris wrote:

> It could be cynically suggested that the increase in price could
> simply be a
> way of offsetting the cost of the (slightly) higher failure /
> returns rate
> on drives used within the enterprise environment?
>
> Realistically I would assume that the mechanisms are unchanged between
> currently available enterprise and non-enterprise versions of the same
> drives however there can be firmware changes to optimize things
> like seek
> noise (usually acceptable to be louder for enterprise drives), thermal
> calibration, seek performance under vibration caused by multi-drive
> installs
> etc.
>
> For domestic use - even if spinning 24/7 - non-enterprise drives are
> unlikely to be of any real disadvantage and from the few NAS drives
> I've
> seen with their guts hanging out they seem not to use enterprise
> drives
> either.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of domdevitto
> > Sent: 23 September 2007 10:06
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Which SATA Drives?
> >
> > 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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