Adding to my own noise, good reading as I'd never heard of these features. I learn hardware specs like this on "as needed" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery
Do many of you guys stay current on motherboards, HDD, RAM, vid card, etc technology? If so, what's your source for info? I dive in only when a task requires me to spec something out, so it can be months of nothing with bursts of an intense 12-14hrs of catching up with the times. Usually buying a new home PC involves a week of catching up on RAM, HDD, CPU and video card technology, I think last time I spent close to 30 hours all said and done. The CPU side nowadays is the worst! Dave -----Original Message----- From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell PowerEdge 840 SATA? 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
