From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Samsung F1 RAID Class SATA/300 1TB drives Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:50:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4CCF19F9.5080505@tmr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Knecht Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mark Knecht wrote: > I saw in Fry's San Jose ad today they were selling these > Serial-ATA/300 drives for $67. They didn't give a model number but > scouting around a bit on the web I'm guessing they are a discontinued > model. > > Any inputs on whether these are drives that work well with mdadm RAID? > Do they support TLER and otherwise work well? > > This would just be a home server of some type, nothing industrial. > Probably a 3 drive RAID-1 or something like that. > > Comments? > Newegg has prices like that regularly. On brand name drives, like Seagate, Hitachi, and WD, too, if you prefer. -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein