"Poor" man's NAS

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> There are enterprise class SATA drives (e.g. WD Raptors), which cost
> significantly more than the garden variety commodity drives, and typically
> have capacities that reflect the different geometry.  Thus the 10,000 RPM
> WD Raptor we just installed has a 74GB capacity while the commodity drives
> are generally multiples of 20GB.

How long have you been using those WD Raptor drives?  I've heard some
really horrible things about reliability in them, but all I've used with
any regularity on the SATA front are Seagate, and occasionally
Hitachi/IBM.

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