how would you spend $1000 on a server?

[William Park]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:18:11PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:08:01PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > I like Samsung, because they have "enterprise" specs (whatever that
> > means) at "consumer" price:
> >     - 1 in 10^15 non-recoverable error,
> 
> It sounds nice, but I am still going to stick with raid, and I am really
> looking forward to btrfs stabalising so we can have a filesystem with
> CRC block checks.
> 
> >     - 7200 rpm, 
> >     - 1,200,000 MTBF
> >     - good power consumption
> > 
> > For 2TB, though, Western Digital is way ahead of the rest.
> 
> Is the samsung quiet like the WD drives?

Since all my drives are Samsung, I can't really compare.  But, Samsung
5400rpm is very quiet and cool.  I suspect it's pretty much the same as
WD's 5400rpm.

-- 
William

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