Hard drives...

[William Park]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:55:10PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> So, I have to ask where is there a market for drives with such as the
> Seagate "Barracuda"? Is it:
> 
> - Install in RAID 5 or RAID 10 arrays that are designed to deal with
> the failure of a single drive in a way that is fairly painless?
> - Install in a desktop office setting where all key data is stored on
> a central server and in the event of a drive failure the desktop
> machine gets re-imaged with the default corporate desktop?
> - Local PC builders where they assume the buyers will not notice that
> @#$% drives are being included in the package?
> 
> Or am I missing something else?

1 drive is always better than 2, so consolidating your disks makes
sense.  Eg. 10 x 1TB Raid5 gives you the same 9TB as 4 x 3TB Raid5, but
keep in mind that most motherboard has 6 SATA ports and most case has 6
x 3.5" bays.  Just don't buy WD Green. :-)
-- 
William
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