On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Ryan Coleman <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
