On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua Penix wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
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>>> 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.
>
> One thing people are leaving out is that you can get a 15K RPM SAS drive. I
> haven't seen a 15K RPM SATA drive yet.
A quick look around doesn't show any SAS drives over 300GB. So I
guess it depends on what you value more.
carl
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