"Poor" man's NAS

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>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.

Personally I haven't been using them long, but they were recommended to me
by a close friend who works for one of the larger suppliers of enterprise
Linux hardware.

Bill
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