>From experience, for a video-archiv and backup-server its not a problem to use desktop drives if you respect the following thinks:
1. Avoid stock "green"-drives; For example, use the WD Idle tool to stop excessive load cycles for WD Green drives 2. Desktop drives didn't have time-limited error recovery (TLER); if you have bad sectores. the drive will try to read the sectore for 1-2 minutes 3. Avoid the cheap toshiba 5TB drives .. :) I have i use: 3x WD Green 3TB, 1x WD Red 3TB, 1x WD Red 6TB, 1x Seagate NAS 3TB -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
