Dan, I would say there are actually 3 levels of drives:
Cheap consumer drives - 1-3 year warranty Better consumer drives - i.e. Caviar Black, 5 year warranty Enterprise drives - 5 year warranty, usually designed for RAID arrays, i.e. RE4 On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Dan Penoff <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The answer to both is yes. They are perfectly compatible in both > directions. > > As for drives, you have two choices: > > Consumer > > Enterprise > > > You will pay probably 3x-4x more for the equivalent enterprise drive, > depending on the vendor, but it will have a far better MTBF. > > It has been my experience of the last couple of years, part of which was > working directly in an operation where both laptop and desktop computers > were being repaired on a daily basis, that hard drives are pretty much a > commodity. In other words, it's so competitive that suppliers sell based > on price, and willingly eat the warranty units that occur. If you're > interested in reliability, spend the money up front and buy an enterprise > grade drive. > > There is a really good study done by Google (I think) on hard drive MTBFs > and how they are really misleading. You might want to Google it and read. > > Dan > > On May 19, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Craig wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:35:21 -0600 Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: > > > >> Is there anyone who makes a decent disk these days? > > > > Another question: > > > > How intercompatible are 3.0 Gb/s SATA and 6.0 Gb/s SATA? > > > > Can one use a 6.0 Gb/s SATA disk on a 3.0 Gb/s interface? > > > > Can one use a 3.0 Gb/s SATA disk on a 6.0 Gb/s interface? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Craig > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
