On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Penix wrote: >> >> On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote: >> >>> What are some examples of RAID/Enterprise SATA drives vs desktop stuff? >> >> Western Digital 750GB Caviar Desktop: >> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=311 >> >> Western Digital 750GB RE2 Enterprise: >> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=335 >> >> Difference is 3 year vs. 5 year warranty, and higher claimed MTBF. It's >> my understanding the drives are identical internally, but the firmware is >> tuned slightly differently. > > One thing people are leaving out is that you can get a 15K RPM SAS drive. I > haven't seen a 15K RPM SATA drive yet.
A quick look around doesn't show any SAS drives over 300GB. So I guess it depends on what you value more. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list