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 slower, use a whole lot less power (saves pennies per
hour), meaning less heat (pennies per hour saved on cooling), less
vibrations (increased lifetime, less need to noise-isolate disk setups
to avoid vibrations slowing seeks).
Unless you _NEED_ the 125mbytes/sec-per-device transfers of the 7200rpm
drives (you can live with 100mbytes/sec), then go for the 5900rpm drives.
//Svein
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