Oh, and there's one that's not on this list: Enterprise-grade SATA drives report an SAS WWN. Plain consumer drives do not.
It might sound like a minor thing, but any SAS storage array that uses an SAS expander chip will refuse to operate with plain consumer drives connected. On 5/19/2010 10:21 AM, David Lum wrote: > 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. -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
