Greg Twyford wrote: > Except that they are rated for continuous operation owing to not using > the shitty fluid dynamic bearings used in all desktop SATA and IDE HDDs > now. If you buy IDE or SATA RAID, also buy spare drives, as you'll need > them.
Western Digital have addressed this and produce a RAID edition SATA drive, designed for continuous use and warranted for 5 years. They are of course a little dearer, but nowhere near SCSI pricing. We use these as standard in any new SATA server, HP do not. cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
