I just had a WD 500GB desktop drive in my Tivo die after about 9 months. Need to RMA the thing. :) The other tivo had the raid drive and it's still going.
Mark Joshua Penix wrote: > On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote: > >> What are some examples of RAID/Enterprise SATA drives vs desktop stuff? > > Western Digital 750GB Caviar Desktop: > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=311 > > Western Digital 750GB RE2 Enterprise: > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=335 > > Difference is 3 year vs. 5 year warranty, and higher claimed MTBF. It's > my understanding the drives are identical internally, but the firmware > is tuned slightly differently. > > Similar contrast would be the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Desktop) and > Barracuda ES Series (Server). In Seagate's case, the warranties are > both 5 years, so the difference is even less pronounced. > > Cost wise, I usually only see $5 to $15 difference in price, and always > opt for the Enterprise-level drives if possible. I don't believe it > actually makes much difference, but suspect down the road it will cause > less headache as far as warranty replacements and/or vendors of drive > systems erroneously claiming that the "non-server" drives I put in > caused some sort of issue. > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
