I'm seeing these WD "green" 1.5tb drives on buy.com for $109.98, and thinking to myself about the spindle speed. Rumor has them at 5900 rpm. Their IOPS certainly isn't as good as 7200 rpm disks, but putting 6 of them into a RAID5, would it even matter?
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