Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
"Enterprise" SATA Drives will be marketed as "nearline", "enterprise", "always on", "24/7 operation" or some flavor as such. Basically, they use slightly different components, and are specifically designed to spin 24/7.
Do they REALLY use slightly different components? I've heard this many times but nobody has ever been able to show that this was true. Google and Carnegie Mellon have both released disk drive failure statistics in the last couple of years and didn't find any statistically significant difference between home user IDE and expensive SCSI failure rates.
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