From: Brendan Conoboy <blc@redhat.com>
To: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "raid" versions of hard drives for software raid?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:37:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486BE720.3090507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873amsqbag.fsf@uwo.ca>
Dan Christensen wrote:
> I'm looking at either the Western Digital 500G RE2 drives or the cheaper
> 500G SE16 drives. I have read that for use with a hardware raid card,
> the RE2 drives are more appropriate, and I'm wondering if the same is
> true for software raid.
It's a mechanical property- vibration tolerance and whatnot. No
difference between software and hardware raid in this sense.
> I am planning to get two drives, and may use the entire drives as RAID1,
> or I might partition the drives and use most of the partitions in a
> RAID1 configuration, but leave a few of the partitions without RAID.
>
> Suggestions appreciated (even suggestions for another drive I should
> consider).
>
> I do like the 5 year warranty on the RE2 drives and the increased MTBF,
> as I do have a long history of drive failures...
I have 5 400GB RE2 drives in a RAID5 array (software raid, naturally).
That 5 year warranty has come in handy- only 1 of the original drives
still remains. 5 RMAs in under 3 years. Maybe the 500GB is better.
--
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-02 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 20:30 "raid" versions of hard drives for software raid? Dan Christensen
2008-07-02 20:37 ` Brendan Conoboy [this message]
2008-07-02 20:51 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-07-02 21:30 ` Brendan Conoboy
2008-07-02 20:54 ` Dan Christensen
2008-07-03 14:34 ` Dan Christensen
2008-07-03 16:06 ` Roger Heflin
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