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From: David Lethe <david@santools.com>
Subject: Re: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:10:39 -0500
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On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Andrew Dunn wrote:

> Recently Dell is selling their WD20EARS (2TB) for 90$
> 
> This being one of the best PPG (Price Per Gigabyte) snatches I have
> seen, I was considering buying 8 of them for an mdadm array.
> 
> Has anyone had experience with these drives?
> 
> Note, they have 4K sectors.
> 
> Thank you for your kind responses.
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This is a low-cost consumer disk that is rated for a whole 2400 hours
use in a year.  You get what you pay for.