I was actually looking at the Seagate Barracuda model... I'm upgrading my RAID 5 of 8x1TB to something larger. $135 each: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148487
On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:28 PM, TJ Varghese wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.cole...@cwis.biz> wrote: > Can anyone give me any reasons to buy these over 7200RPMs for a RAID? I may > need to pinch pennies if I have to finance my next servers out of pocket. > Stupid idea, I know, but I really want to know if there's a reason to skimp. > > > Specific models that you're considering would be good. For WD, if you're > referring to the WD's GreenPower (non-RAID Ed), there are 2 gotchas > > 1) no support for TLER any longer - this IMHO is a deal breaker for RAID > 2) ridiculously low sleep times (6s) to maximize power savings - in a server, > this would cause extreme load cycles, however this setting can be set to less > extreme numbers using wdidle. > > The main technical criterion for any HDDs to be used in a raid IMO should be > TLER support IMO. Speed/capacity would be secondary concerns. > > > regards, > TJ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
