From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Subject: Re: 5400 vs 7200 RPM IDE drives Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:55:41 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200210091155.41257.roy@karlsbakk.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: "David U." , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wednesday 09 October 2002 00:27, David U. wrote: > Hi friends, > > I was just wondering what the most current opinions were with regard to > 5400 vs 7200 RPM drives. > > Also, have people been happy with the Western Digital 100gig Special > Edition drives? > > What are other people using? I have two servers with 16 IBM 120gigs each, and they mostly work. One disk went boom the other day, but that's expected - I mean - one out of 32 drives in half a year isn't that bad The choice between 5,4 and 7,2 is to be taken on behalf of the seek time needed. seek times on 5,4 drives are substantially slower... roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.