To populate a NAS (QNAP TS-409), I am looking to purchase 4 matched Harddisks, but from different batches (diff. manufacturers even preferred) to avoid batch errors affecting two drives at once (see http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~paris/MYPAPERS/StorageSS06.pdf)
I am looking at either 4x 5000GB or 5x 750GB capacity at this time. I can find several models from Seagate, Maxtor (also seems to be Seagate now), WD, Hitachi, and Samsung Most seem to have 16MB buffer cache, but i have not found a Seagate that has 16MB (most have 32MB). Due to the NAS's requirements, I would like to keep things as much similar as possible. Would anyone here have either recommendations for disks that would make up a good matching pare and/or also good sources where to purchase these? tia Matjes _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
