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Unread 04-30-2010, 07:13 AM   #4
Max8
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Default Re: Large >1TB drives in GOS unit

This is a great subject, drives types (and which are the best for snaps) is getting harder & harder to keep track of;

I have people at work telling me that there is no difference between Enterprise & Desktop Drives apart from the price and the warranty!
(I have always thought this was BS but I still believe in Santa too!)

For home in a snap I have no problem with good desktop drives if they are the better models as I replicate everything… I get the impression that the general reliability of Desktop SATA HDD’s is very close Enterprise SATA & SAS HDD’s relatively speaking…


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Originally Posted by HarryC View Post
You definitely want to stay away from the "green" versions of the drives for arrays.
What do the green drives do wrong?
1. do the power-down tweaks adversely effect arrays?
2. or are they unreliable?
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