On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:14 -0400, John Martz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Tom<tba...@nmia.com> wrote: > > ... OWC has always been > > a reliable company, so I just up and ordered up two of these 1-TB ones > > from them: <http://tinyurl.com/dec2kl>. There is a cheaper version of > > the same drive offered there ($87 vs. $139, see <http://tinyurl.com/ > > mjm49f>), but รง and this model has a 5 year > > warranty and they brag about a million hours and more before it > > croaks. > > The Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 looks like it is an "enterprise" version > of their mainstream 7K1000.B. I'm not well informed on all the > potential differences so perhaps others will jump in here. But the > main differences I could see were: > Howdy, There is a discussion thread in another list I follow that talks about these drives. I would suggest you look at: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5899-Some-perspective-to-this-DIY-storage-server-mentioned-at-Storagemojo.html
A Sun storage expert was commenting on an article about building your a cheap storage array. He talks about the the enterprise drive you refer to and compares it to a desktop drive. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
