[Gllug] Cheapish NAS.

[Andy Millar]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 17:03 +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> More expensive disks. The idea was that you could use an array of
> consumer grade drives, rather than spending a fortune on more reliable
> enterprise grade drives. 

Was. You'd have to be crazy to use non enterprise disks in any RAID
array now, they just drop out too easily.

> Of course, these days, commercial RAID
> solutions continue to use enterprise grade drives, in part because of
> the extra reliability, but also (with my cynical hat on[1]), because
> of the higher markup on those drives..

Your cynicism is justified:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/

Andy
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