Can't speak to that line specifically, however I have nothing but good
things to say for the Raptor drives for Enterprise. Used these for
RAID0 drives and forensic processing at a previous job. They either
worked or they didn't out of the box, and the failure rate was
extremely low. Granted you're paying more for 10k RPM, but if you need
performance it's worth it- may not be feasible in your situation.

For a large, cheap storage solution at my current gig, we went with a
large group of 3 TB WD Blue drives and have been happy. IMO something
about the Green Intelligent RPM statement (likely 52ish RPM on these)
drives make me a little nervous on the performance end. If you're not
worried to max performance, maybe this won't be an issue.

Just my two cents this early morning ;-)
--
Jeremy MountainJohnson
Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:46 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote:
>> I propose we replace the drives ... with Western Digital RE4 (enterprise
>> class) 1TB drives.  These should be much better for use in RAID than desktop
>> drives, and are reasonably priced these days.
>
> true or bunk?  i've read all you get for enterprise class its the privilege
> of getting 1/7 the capacity/$.  true or bunk?
>
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