Each Hard-Drive manufacturer has a "near line" or "raid" level hard disk line. Western Digital sold the RE series, most recent was the RE3 I believe. Seagate sells the ES series, which is what I have used in the past without much trouble. I don't know what Hitachi calls their near-line line. Check with the manufacturer if the drive you're looking at is intended to be in a raid, always on and hot.
Samsung's been working hard to play in the OEM harddrive game. I have no experience with their drives, but they seem to have a very competitive price/GB ratio. SSD drives are rated to have a longer MTBF than spinning media. That makes it sound very promising, and the idea of booting off of an SSD raid 1 while running storage off of spinning magnetic hard drives has crossed my mind. I haven't tried it yet, though. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:36:22 -0700 Subject: Any good One tb or higher raid class stata disks?? > I will be rebudling a server and need 6 sata raid class hds?? Any ideas > > And how ssd raid one for os and the rest for raid class sata disks over one > tb or so?? > > Samsung disks any good??? > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
