On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Michael DeMan wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > >>> Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal >>> Hard Drive -Bare Drive >>> >>> are only $129. >>> >>> vs. $89 for the 'regular' black drives. >>> >>> 45% higher price, but it is my understanding that the 'RAID Edition' >>> ones also are physically constructed for longer life, lower vibration >>> levels, etc. >> >> Well, here it's about 60% up and for 150 drives, that makes a wee >> difference... >> >> Vennlige hilsener / Best regards >> >> roy > > Understood on 1.6 times cost, especially for quantity 150 drives.
One service outage will consume far more in person-hours and downtime than this little bit of money. Penny-wise == Pound-foolish? -- richard -- OpenStorage Summit, October 25-27, Palo Alto, CA http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
