On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
SAS drives will generally have a longer warranty than desktop drives.With 2TB drives priced at €150 or lower, I somehow think paying for drive lifetime is far more expensive than getting a few more drives and add redundancy
This really depends on if you are willing to pay in advance, or pay after the failure. Even with redundancy, the cost of a failure may be high due to loss of array performance and system administration time. Array performance may go into the toilet during resilvers, depending on the redundancy configuration and the type of drives used.
All types of drives fail but typical SATA drives fail more often. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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