Re: Storage server
On 9/14/2012 4:48 AM, Pertti Kosunen wrote:
> On 14.9.2012 2:45, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Consumer hard drives will not work with most RAID cards. As a general
>> rule, RAID cards require enterprise SATA drives or SAS drives.
>
> http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/6157/
>
> Western Digitals new Red series is RAID-compatible.
Yes, and as such these drives do not fall into the consumer category.
Note they are marketed specifically for SOHO NAS boxen. While they do
offer programmable TLER/ERC timeout with a suitable default of 7
seconds, they're not a good fit for anyone who desires performance along
with capacity, due to the slow 5400 RPM spindle speed. In such a case
one's money is probably better spent buying a smaller quantity of 7.2K
RE4 or other enterprise SATA drives for about the same $$.
--
Stan
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