On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Maxim Khitrov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Michael Powell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm not really answering the direct question, per se, but there is a data >> point you may wish to know a little more about. There exists a difference in >> hard drives, ala "Enterprise" vs "Desktop". The difference is in the length >> of the timeout experienced when an error condition such as a platter sector >> read/write error and resultant remap. > > I'm aware of that fact. In my workstation I'm using four Seagate > Barracuda ES drives in RAID5. For this build I will likely go with > with ES.2 (ST31000340NS). > > - Max
On second thought, given all the problems Seagate has been having lately, including with that particular model, I may go for WD RE3 drives instead. - Max _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
