From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: "raid" versions of hard drives for software raid?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:30:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873amsqbag.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
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.
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...
Thanks,
Dan
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-02 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 20:30 Dan Christensen [this message]
2008-07-02 20:37 ` "raid" versions of hard drives for software raid? Brendan Conoboy
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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