It seems that after reading the backblaze and google papers about drive reliability that there is no statistically obvious difference. It's too close to call. Both papers end with hedges and further questions. Even if enterprise drives are more reliable it isn't by more than a single percent and it isn't consistent enough to matter either.
Evan Root, CCNA On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Christian Weisgerber [na...@mips.inka.de] wrote: > > > > Now, the real question is whether enterprise drives actually *are* > > more reliable than consumer drives. > > > > For regular hard disks, the answer is definitely, no.
