Evan Root [[email protected]] wrote: > 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. >
The difference in firmware between consumer and enterprise drives can be papered over with a good RAID controller. The kernel might need to timeout or do something. But the problem should be attacked there instead of saying "oh just buy the 5x cost drive".
