Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-14 Thread TJ Varghese
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > 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 > > If it's for a personal NAS, it's fine, but if

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread TJ Varghese
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Ryan Coleman 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. > > Specifi

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread Ryan Coleman
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 wrot

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 14.08.2010 03:52, Ryan Coleman 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. They're a little slowe

5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread Ryan Coleman
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. -- Ryan ___ freebsd-ques