Because of these features, right? * Superior reliability - Designed and manufactured to provide server-class reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive.
* RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) - Significantly reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 840 SATA? I would not EVER use a normal consumer SATA drive in any sort of RAID array. The only SATA drives I would use are the ones intended for server storage - the Western Digital RE series or the Seagate Barracuda ES series. The Western Digital WD5002ABYS is an RE drive and should be fine. On 5/19/2010 9:51 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > Thanks, I'd **heard** that Dell relaxed the requirement of using DELL > oem'd drives on their newer servers, but still don't know : > > 1) If consumer shelf drives work properly regardless of firmware > levels ( are they upgradable too with the Dell firmware ? ) -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ 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/> ~
