Dan Widyono on 10 Mar 2005 14:38:23 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Re: Hardware RAID


> I have ide drives under constant load running for years 24/7 in a server
> environment. I have seen both SCSI and ide drives fail but not one more
> than the other.

Ibid.

> I would not put the 1 year warranty consumer drives in a production server
> just because I think they might not hold up but that is just a feeling
> and I could be wrong about it.

For us it's a simple matter of "when a drive goes down, how quickly and
easily and inexpensively (free) can I replace it and get the server back up
and running?".  Longer warranty == I can do it very easily etc. for a longer
period of time... at least with Dell and IBM it's easy and quick.

Dan W.

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